Paul Saladino· MD
If you were the other end and you were stressed out and all that kind of stuff and relationships weren't good or you're in a bad place, then your risk of getting a cold when you were exposed was two two in three.
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If you were the other end and you were stressed out and all that kind of stuff and relationships weren't good or you're in a bad place, then your risk of getting a cold when you were exposed was two two in three.
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And they found that if you were in a really good place mentally and least stressed, your risk of getting a cold when actually having symptomatic cold symptoms, being exposed to the cold virus, was one in three.