{"id":2200,"date":"2023-01-17T11:01:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T17:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2023-01-17T11:01:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T17:01:22","slug":"why-its-easier-to-catch-a-cold-the-flu-or-covid-in-the-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/01\/17\/why-its-easier-to-catch-a-cold-the-flu-or-covid-in-the-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Why it\u2019s easier to catch a cold, the flu or COVID in the winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/why-easier-catch-cold-flu-covid-winter?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=latest-newsletter-v2&amp;utm_source=Latest_Headlines&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest_Headlines\">Science News<\/a>) When bitter winds blew and temperatures dropped, my grandmother would urge me to come inside. \u201cYou\u2019ll catch your death of cold out there,\u201d she\u2019d say. Sure, freezing to death is possible in frigid temperatures. But doctors and other health experts have long stressed that\u00a0<em>being<\/em>\u00a0cold won\u2019t give you a cold. Still, winter is undisputedly cold-and-flu season. It\u2019s also a period when COVID-19 spreads more. But if the chill doesn\u2019t matter, why does the spread of so many respiratory viruses peak during the season?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Science News) When bitter winds blew and temperatures dropped, my grandmother would urge me to come inside. \u201cYou\u2019ll catch your death of cold out there,\u201d she\u2019d say. Sure, freezing to death is possible in frigid temperatures. But doctors and other health experts have long stressed that\u00a0being\u00a0cold won\u2019t give you a cold. Still, winter is undisputedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}