Study: Immune Response To The Common Cold May Weaken COVID Infections

In mid-June, Yale University published a study that claimed that the common cold could help combat COVID-19. “Exposure to the rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold, can protect against infection by the virus which causes COVID-19,”  a report explained. Researchers found that the common cold virus jump-starts an immune system response, which can slow a COVID infection within the body’s airway tissues.

Updates of this news have been posted across social media and have gained hundreds of interactions. Some of these posts have implied that coronavirus vaccines are unnecessary due to this discovery. For instance, the Facebook page Mad Diet stated that this news was not more widely spread due to some people making billions of dollars with “newfangled concoctions.”