Virology

Asymptomatic

Immunology

Immunity

Immune system

Outbreak

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Nursing

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Medicine

Disease

Pandemic

Internal medicine

Public health

Intensive care medicine

Journal of Molecular Virology and Immunology

There is an ongoing interaction between nutrition, immune system, and infectious diseases. Inadequate and unbalanced nutrition may reduce the defense efficiency of the immune system and increase the risk of contracting infectious diseases and the severity of disease symptoms. COVID-19 (coronavirus disease-2019) outbreak, which emerged in December 2019 and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in a short time, has become the most important public health problem worldwide in the last few years. COVID-19 is asymptomatic or causes with mild symptoms in most people, however, it progresses to severe illness accompanied by serious symptoms in some people, and it is known that this difference is mainly related to the effective immune responses of individuals. There is currently any easily accessible antiviral drug with proven therapeutic efficacy for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 disease. Therefore, there has been an increasing effort to explore immune-supportive additional therape...

COVID-19 and Support Products: The Effects of Nutritional Immunity