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“Everyone was getting sick with coughs, the flu, with the air being cold all day,” he said.

Many of the symptoms between cold, flu and more serious viruses like Covid, overlap.

While most people experience only mild symptoms resembling stomach flu, it can lead to severe illness such as meningitis or sepsis.

Covid can still cause a wide range of symptoms, including headache, coughing, a blocked or running nose and exhaustion, making it difficult to distinguish from a cold or flu.

Since the avian flu arrived en force in California’s dairy industry in 2024, not only has it sickened cows, it has killed hundreds of domestic cats.