With symptoms ranging from a gasping death to nothing at all, one has to wonder whether COVID-19 is a super flu or a mild cold.  Have we ruined our economy over nothing or saved millions of people from death?  If COVID-19 is a mild cold, how did we mistake it for a super flu? There are over 200 different viruses that cause the common cold.  The most common are rhinoviruses, coronaviruses, adenoviruses, and respiratory syncytial viruses.  The average person gets one to three colds per year, and due to the large variety of viruses responsible, there is no vaccine.  Influenza is another common respiratory virus.  Cold or flu, respiratory viruses present similar symptoms and follow the same life cycle.  Launched into the environment from their current host, they might survive long enough to find another.  Typically by inhalation, they might make their way to the mucosa.  They might make it past the wall of mucus to the underlying cells,...(Read Full Article)