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If you already take echinacea for colds, can that help prevent getting covid19 when covid19 starts spreading in the community?
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Probably not: Echinacea is not proven to prevent or treat colds, and there is no reason to expect it to have any benefit in either preventing or treating COVID-19.
Answered 11/1/2021
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Echinacea: No supplements have been shown to prevent tramission of COVID 19 (at this time).
Answered 5/28/2020
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