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Yes, You Can Too Catch a Cold From Being Cold

It turns out Grandma was right all along. A new study in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology refutes the claim that catching what Grandma would call “the death of cold” is an old wives’ tale. In fact, a newly-discovered immune response inside the nose actually can trigger a respiratory illness like RSV, Covid, the common cold and flu — which vindicates Grandma and makes the naysayers wrong. It’s “a finding that challenges the conventional wisdom...