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You have some misunderstandings here. Flu and common cold are two different things. Flu is caused by Influenza viruses. Common cold is caused by a grab bag of
by im3w1l 7y ago
You have some misunderstandings here. Flu and common cold are two different things.
Flu is caused by Influenza viruses. Common cold is caused by a grab bag of viruses, some - but not all, of which are rhinoviruses. There are in fact already coronaviruses that cause common cold.
- Abishek_Muthian 7y agoThanks, I mixed Flu with Common cold. I've corrected it.
- Taniwha 7y agoYes, it's a coronavirus that has learned not to kill its host - probably when it first crossed over to humans a lot of people died (at a time when people didn't move around much) but evolutionary pressure changed it to survive better by not letting its hosts carry it further
- im3w1l 7y agoThere are 4 of them actually. HCoV-OC43, HCoV-HKU1, HCoV-NL63 and HCoV-229E.