Positive Correlation between Heavy Alcoholic Drinking and SARS-Cov-2 Not-infection Rate

TL;DR

This study finds a significant positive correlation between heavy alcohol consumption and higher SARS-CoV-2 non-infection rates in China, based on survey data indicating frequent strong liquor drinkers have a higher uninfection rate.

Contribution

It is the first to report a statistically significant positive correlation between heavy alcohol intake and SARS-CoV-2 uninfection rates using survey data.

Findings

Heavy drinkers (≥3 times/week) have a 38.6% uninfection rate.

General population uninfection rate is 25.1%.

The correlation is statistically significant (p-value < 0.05).

Abstract

An investigation on the correlation between the strong alcoholic drinking and SARS-Cov-2 uninfection rate is carried out. The investigation is done through a simple survey in China based on the social media software Weixin and the survey mini program Wenjuanxin, during 15:00 Jan.1, 2023 to 12:35 Jan.3, 2023. From the $211$ survey questionnaires collected, we find a significant positive correlation between the frequent (no less than three times a week) strong liquor (higher than $40\%$ alcoholic content in volume) drinking and the higher SARS-Cov-2 uninfection rate ($38.6\%$ compared to the value $25.1\%$ for general population). The p-value of this statistical result shows that the correlation is significant.