(Eli5)How is there no cure for common colds?
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Common cold isn’t a single disease. It’s a bunch of different virus infections.
Finding a cure wouldn’t really be worth it, because it would only work against one of the hundreds of different colds (at least 200 strains identified), it would cost a lot of money, and you’d propably have to get vaccinated before you got infected. (And colds are much lower priority than anything that can cause lifelong issues)
Also those viruses are changing all the time, the vaccine wouldn’t work anymore after a few years (just like the flu shot it would have to be reinvented every year, but that’s considered worth it because the flu actually kills people)
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