What is the common cold and why do we get more when it’s cold outside?

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Why do more people get it around the time when it gets cold? I can tell from personal experience I get cold symptoms when i don’t dress properly when it’s getting colder, or if I spend too much time in a room with AC in the summer. But it’s caused by a virus. What does the temperature have to do with the cold virus?

Also, is the virus wasn’t present would it be possible for us to spend time in cold weather without getting sick?

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In the macro, big picture; people associate colds with the cold as they spend more time together indoors as the weather is more harsh outside, and people spend more time indoors in close quarters, thus making a virus easier to spread.

They is an old statistic, murders go up with ice cream sales.

This is not because of the ice cream sales, but the heat outside and more people going outside and being around each other when the weather is nice.

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