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The day's second major healthcare story came from biotech. Both NBC's Tom Costello and ABC's Ned Potter covered research into the common cold published in Science magazine. "The rhinovirus--it is what makes us sneeze and cough and feel miserable," NBC's Costello explained. Yet a cure is elusive because the virus comes in 100-or-so strains. As ABC's Potter put it, "the cold has been tough because it is really the colds, plural." He added that for the elderly and asthmatic children, those colds "can be dangerous." Genetic researchers announced that they have now decoded the DNA of each strain so they can now work on that cure. NBC's Costello was skeptical: "It costs an awful lot of money to do that and, of course, for most of us the cold is just a nuisance."
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