A paper was published in BMJ Nutrition Prevention & Health on June 7th, 2021 (Ref 1) which the UK broadcaster, ITV, covered it as “Covid: Being vegan or pescatarian may reduce severity of coronavirus, study suggests” (Ref 2). Other UK newspapers followed suit. The Telegraph headline was “Vegetarians ‘three quarters less likely to get severe Covid than meat eaters’” (Ref 3). The study itself was called “Plant-based diets, pescatarian diets and COVID-19 severity: a population-based case–control study in six countries.” The six countries were France, Germany, Italy, Spain, …
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