I got sick with a cold. I started to feel better then my wife got sick with a cold. What’s preventing me from getting sick from the cold that she has now in the future, just like she got sick from my cold and then she getting sick again from my “next cold”, etc — like an infinite loop of colds?

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I got sick with a cold. I started to feel better then my wife got sick with a cold. What’s preventing me from getting sick from the cold that she has now in the future, just like she got sick from my cold and then she getting sick again from my “next cold”, etc — like an infinite loop of colds?

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You’ll have anti bodies for that strain – if you just had it your body will react pretty much straight away not giving the virus a chance to replicate. It is possible to re-infect each other however. But overall you both act like a singular host if you’re together and eventually both have antibodies so the virus can no longer spread.