Curious Cook: Can diets affect the severity of Covid-19 symptoms?

A recent study has shown that people on a plant-based diet had considerably lower odds of having severe Covid-19. — MAARTEN VAN DEN HEUVEL/Pexels

No matter how you feel or think about it, the simple fact is that humans now must co-exist and live with the SARS-CoV-2 virus (which causes Covid-19), and we will likely have to do this forever.

There was a moment at the beginning of the pandemic where there was a statistical chance the virus may have been defeated if the entire world had self-isolated for 35 days. But as this did not happen (probably for many good, and many bad, reasons), the current situation is hundreds of millions of confirmed infections worldwide with at least 4.6 million deaths attributed to Covid-19.