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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The outside temperature has nothing to do with the virus directly.
Colds are more prevalent in winter/colder seasons because humans don’t like the cold, stay indoors more, giving the virus more people in close proximity with each other, and it can spread better/faster that way. Cold viruses are there all year round, it’s just that we catch fewer colds in summer because humans are more outdoors in warm weather and less likely to be huddled together sharing smaller spaces/breathing all over each other.
IANAD, don’t quote me on this!
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