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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The common cold is a virus, something I read once (wish I knew the source) was ‘you could row naked across the Atlantic and not get a cold unless you were exposed to the virus’. I thought we just got them more when it’s colder weather as that’s when we’re indoors with other folk more than in the summer when we’re outside and stuff….

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