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> most people with the common cold coronaviruses only have mild symptoms Pretty sure the same could be said of C19, depending on how you define "most". However
by m0zg 6y ago
> most people with the common cold coronaviruses only have mild symptoms
Pretty sure the same could be said of C19, depending on how you define "most". However, cursory googling shows that there are _1 billion_ cases of common cold in the US alone every year (lots of people have it more than once), so it'd still seem like it'd be worthwhile if it were doable. Common cold accounts for 40% of all time lost from jobs and 30% of lost school time.
- war1025 6y agoOnly a minority of colds are caused by Cornaviruses though. Something like 20%
- m0zg 6y agoThat's still 200M in the US alone.
- graeme 6y agoThere are at least four coronaviruses that cause the common cold. And immunity lasts only 6-12 months. So, this would be 4-8 vaccinations per year, for life, to reduce colds by 20%. I might do that myself, but I’m not sure it would sell well enough to fund the costs of developing the vaccine.
- rsynnott 6y agoThe common cold is caused by _many_ coronaviruses and many non-coronaviruses. At least 200 in total, I believe. You’d need to develop (and take) tens if not hundreds of vaccines to do anything useful. There has been some work on rhinovirus vaccines, but it’s pretty natural that COVID (and sars-1 and mers, for that matter) get higher priority.