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Common cold and Omicron

The cold is likely the most common sickness: around people in the United States come down with a billion colds annually. Most adults come down with two to three colds a year, and children even more. It usually takes people between seven and 10 days to get over a cold.

Many viruses cause the cold, which includes symptoms like runny nose, sore throat, coughing and sneezing, headaches and body aches. The most common culprit is the rhinovirus. Symptoms typically start two to three days after you’re infected.

The cold is usually passed along when you touch a surface infected by cold viruses.

Most people recover from colds within seven to 10 days. But people with weakened immune systems, asthma, or other respiratory illnesses can develop serious illnesses, like bronchitis or pneumonia.

In 2020 there were 711,000 pneumonia deaths in the United States alone.

To date there have been ZERO deaths from Omicron in the United States and maybe one in the World.

New lock downs, mask mandates, forced injections of harmful experimental drugs....The World has gone nuts, being lead by even nuttier leaders.

Dec 14, 2021
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