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I posted this article a week ago, but it went almost unnoticed: You Don’t Get Colds from Being Cold https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25572907 https://news
by samizdis 6y ago
I posted this article a week ago, but it went almost unnoticed:
You Don’t Get Colds from Being Cold
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25572907 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25572907
- jerome-jh 6y agoShould I summarize the article, cold (low temperature) has no relation with being infected: two groups of people inoculated with a virus, one with wet suits in a cold environment, the other in a normal environment, develop a cold (the disease) at equal rate. Being in cold weather causes the same symptoms as "having a cold": teary eyes, runny nose and chills. The article postulates this is the root of the belief that cold weather causes "common cold".