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A Common Cold Can Boot Out COVID

Summary by Cindy Olmstead

Scientists have discovered that simple common cold viruses are so strong they can literally boot COVID to the curb, leading them to wonder if this could be a cure for ending COVID. A cold is most commonly caused by human rhinoviruses, which are highly transmissible. The team at the Centre for Virus Research in Glasgow used a replica — made out of the same type of cells — which duplicates the lining of human airways. They then infected it with rhinovirus and Sars-CoV-2, the virus...