Posted on 04/04/2022 10:46:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin
“Distinguishing COVID from flu can be difficult because the symptoms overlap so much,” explained Dr. Brooke Bozick, an NIH expert on respiratory diseases.
Spectrum Health reports it is seeing patients who are fighting the cold and flu for up to a week.
“We rely on getting [exposure to the flu and cold] every so often, so it gives a little boost to our immune system,” Sullivan said. “That way when we do get them, the symptoms are limited to three or four days until you start to feel better.”
There is no cure for the common cold. Typical treatments include rest, fluids, and over-the-counter medicines.
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Mainly because “COVID” surged in a year the flu deaths were down by 95%. In other words, they took flu deaths, branded them “COVID”, got paid $15k per death, and made bank off a mostly-harmless pandemic.
And there are sheep on FR posting that stuff all the time, and they eat it up. ANYTHING the CDC reports, MinorityRepublican, and gasdr, and a bunch of other trolls just eat up.
Yep. You beat me to it.
Yup. My “Covid cocktail” consists of 5,000 iu of Vitamin D3, 50mg of Zinc, and 250mg of Quercitin. I have 100 tabs of 12mg of Ivermectin in reserve.
I have a closetful of those.
What is this nonsense that flus and colds are short if you’ve had many of them?
There are hundreds of cold and flu viruses. We haven’t caught all of them.
I’ve had flus that were like colds and colds that were like flu. I’ve had any of them be minor and easy and short, and others Long and difficult and everything in between.
A week is no shock at all!
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