Showing posts with label Drinking Wine & COVID. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drinking Wine & COVID. Show all posts

Friday, January 28

Drinking Wine and COVID


Those who were paying close attention to a study released by the UK National Health Service might have gotten excited about their latest find. 

The study's report showed a correlation between those who consume certain kinds of wine and their likelihood for contracting COVID-19. 

Though it might be tempting to jump to the conclusion that drinking some wine could help ward off the highly-transmittable virus, that isn't exactly what the study suggests (via Wine-Searcher).

The study found that those who do not drink at all were more likely to get COVID-19 while those who drink liquor had no more or less of a chance of contracting the virus. 

But the key findings were that those who drank 14 glasses of red wine or fewer per week were 10 to 17% less likely to get COVID-19. The same number of glasses of fortified wine reduced the risk by 12%. 

Those who drank white wine or Champagne were up to 8% less likely to get the virus. However, it is vital to remember that these figures were reported as correlative patterns, rather than the direct effect of alcohol on COVID-19.  READ MORE...