Health Tips | Is a cold most contagious when you are almost recovering?

A cold usually refers to a disease caused by pathogens invading the respiratory tract, and the incubation period is usually 2 to 4 days. Some people believe that "a cold is most contagious when it is about to heal", is this correct?

In this issue of Health Truth, we invite Sun Yilan, Director of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine at Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, and Tang Qin, Director of the Science Popularization Department of the Chinese Medical Association, to explain to you.