Cold

The common cold is often caused by a coronavirus. Actually, there are four coronaviruses (of seven) that can be implicated — 229E, NL63, OC43, HKU1 — as well as rhinovirus and respiratory syncytial virus, both of which aren’t coronaviruses. There is no cure for the common cold, by the way. No vaccine, either.

So far, there has not been a cold infection for well over a year. Very odd. As chronicled in Notes, the common cold would usually strike every six months, with symptoms lasting up to a month.

Incidentally, the previous attempts to produce vaccines for the MERS and SARS-1 coronaviruses failed. They were actually not vaccines. Instead, they were mRNA “gene therapy” treatments, the precursors to the one being pushed on everyone now to combat “super-duper corona” (SARS-2).

Addendum: Currently, 45% of residents in Hawai’i have been administered the mRNA “vaccine.”