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Re:Why can’t we cure the common cold? by Eridrus on Sunday October 22, 2017 @09:10AM (#15526646)
> Sixteen healthy volunteers were kissed by people with colds. The result: just one confirmed infection.

This doesn't sound like a debunking of what people think at all. If the chance of getting infected from a kissing for a minute is 6%, and you spend a week around an infected person and you kiss them repeatedly, you will almost certainly get sick with that infection rate.

Re:Why can’t we cure the common cold? by wink on Sunday October 22, 2017 @02:22PM (#15528155)
To deduct a general 6% infectionrate because 1 person got infected by 1 other person is kind of not what I believe.

People's immune systems are so different... before I believe that I'd want to see every sick person kissing every healthy person or something. I don't even know how that would work with incubation times. Lock people away and just allow contact every 2 days for 3 weeks? But then all the sick people would probably be healthy again already.

My head explodes just trying to think about this kind of trial, mixed with statistics :P

Re:Why can’t we cure the common cold? by Eridrus on Sunday October 22, 2017 @02:29PM (#15528178)
> To deduct a general 6% infectionrate because 1 person got infected by 1 other person is kind of not what I believe.

Sure, I'm just saying this was not a very strong result in terms of disproving the fact that kissing doesn't spread cold viruses.