more than half of all common colds, are the most widespread respiratory viruses in humans.Stay informed with live updates on the current COVID-19 outbreak and visit our coronavirus hub for more advice on prevention and treatment.Previous research suggests that HRVs may have inhibited the spread of the influenza A virus subtype H1N1 across Europe during the 2009 flu pandemic. Experts believe that the HRVs did this by inducing human cells to produce interferon, which is part of the body’s innate immune defenses against viral infection.Research has shown that SARS-CoV-2 is susceptible to the effects of interferon.This finding led scientists at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research in the United Kingdom to speculate whether.