what would the effects of a cold virus be aside from the immune system? Seems every symptom of a cold is an immune system response, and not the cold itself.

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what would the effects of a cold virus be aside from the immune system? Seems every symptom of a cold is an immune system response, and not the cold itself.

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Probably just slight irritation in your nose.

Unless your immune system doesn’t stop it, in which case probably total destruction of parts of your upper respiratory tract as the virus multiplies uncontrolled and infects and kills basically every cell it’s able to.