Commentary Have you ever experienced a persistent and severe common cold, only to be advised by your healthcare provider to schedule a telehealth appointment with your treating doctor? Nowadays, medical clinics discourage patients from visiting their doctors in person, presumably to avoid the risk of infection for their staff who are required to wear masks….

Children’s exposure to the common cold can give them cross-immunity against the COVID-19 virus, a new study by European scientists suggests. Since the pandemic, there have been many hypotheses to explain the well-documented phenomenon that young children are much less likely than adults to be harmed by COVID-19 infection. One of them proposes that the…

COVID-19 will become “just another cause of the common cold” and people who test positive will have to be allowed to go about their normal lives as they would do with any other cold, a British medical professor has said. Paul Hunter, professor in medicine at the University of East Anglia, told BBC Breakfast on…

Researchers said in a newly published preliminary study that one of Omicron’s dozens of mutations likely arose when the variant picked up a bit of genetic material from another virus, possibly one that causes the common cold, potentially making the new strain more transmissible yet milder in impact. The study, which has not yet been…