Editing Common cold (section)

==Societal impact==
The economic impact of the common cold is not well understood in much of the world.<ref name="EcclesPg_a" /> In the United States, the common cold leads to 75–100 million physician visits annually at a conservative cost estimate of $7.7 billion per year. Americans spend $2.9 billion on over-the-counter drugs and another $400 million on prescription medicines for symptom relief.<ref name=Frend03>{{cite journal |vauthors=Fendrick AM, Monto AS, Nightengale B, Sarnes M |title=The economic burden of non-influenza-related viral respiratory tract infection in the United States |journal=Archives of Internal Medicine |volume=163 |issue=4 |pages=487–94 |date=February 2003 |pmid=12588210 |doi=10.1001/archinte.163.4.487 |doi-access=|s2cid=10169748 }}</ref> More than one-third of people who saw a doctor received an antibiotic prescription, which has implications for [[antibiotic resistance]].<ref name=Frend03/> An estimated 22–189 million school days are missed annually due to a cold. As a result, parents missed 126 million workdays to stay home to care for their children. When added to the 150 million workdays missed by employees who have a cold, the total economic impact of cold-related work loss exceeds $20 billion per year.<ref name="NIAID2006"/><ref name=Frend03/> This accounts for 40% of time lost from work in the United States.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Kirkpatrick GL |title=The common cold |journal=Primary Care |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=657–75 |date=December 1996 |pmid=8890137 |pmc=7125839 |doi=10.1016/S0095-4543(05)70355-9}}</ref>