I’d like to be writing to you saying how much progress we’ve made getting vitamin C into the public and medical consciousness to save lives. But, the tragic reality at this point is that vitamin C is being totally ignored or stone-walled. I must have written at least two hundred letters, to all the influential groups (SAGE, NERVTAG etc), to all NHS key players, to all national journalists in every newspaper, news channel, radio show. We’ve had two PR agencies try, plus two leading journalists, plus another campaigner who helped get vitamin D noticed, but to no avail. You can read more about this in my latest blog called ‘The Black Hole of Vitamin C’ on www.patrickholford.com (We’ve made some good progress in Ireland mainly through local radio shows.)

The two bits of science that will/should ultimately get published are the Chinese randomised-controlled trial and my colleagues in the US who have measured scurvy levels of vitamin C in their ICU patients. I know the results of these already. Quite shocking really that people are dying with scurvy.

On the ongoing research front a vitamin C ‘arm’ got added to the international REMAP-CAP study that any hospital can sign up to but I cannot find one that has. The other ‘arms’ are to test various drugs. Perhaps the ‘sweeteners’ to sign up to test these drugs are too enticing. Despite the compelling case, much stronger for vitamin C than any of the other drugs, no hospital that I know of has gone for it.

I’m not sure what to do next. Given that vitamin C sales have gone through the roof there is clearly a minority of the public, like you, who are aware of this. I've had many reports of rapid recoveries with high dose vitamin C. I wonder whether our best way forward right now is ‘herd immunity’, getting the R number above 1. I’m not talking about herd immunity from the virus. I’m talking about the idea that nothing will change until a significant number of people are aware that vitamin C, in high doses, cuts infection time and severity.

What I mean about the R number is that if each of you persuaded two other people to try this, and each person then did the same (that’s R = 2), we’d ‘infect’ a significant number of the public with this awareness that anyone can try for themselves and find that vitamin C works - as the science already shows. Not meaning to be ‘commercial’ but if you all persuaded two other people to buy/read the book Flu Fighters (available at www.flufighters.net where the case, not only for vitamin C, but also for vitamin D, zinc and the whole idea of how to support healthy immunity, is made clearly, that might swell the numbers. To help this happen I’m going to give a free copy (2 books for the price of 1) to any book orders made between now and next Friday 12th to help spread the word. It won't say this on the website but that is what will happen for any Flu Fighter book order made from now until 4pm on next Friday 12th June. Then you can give a copy away, maybe keep lending your copies, so more and more people get fully informed.

Wishing you the best of health, Patrick