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Newborns are in danger from just about anything.

Other special populations of children include those with AIDS, CF, DM, and any other immunocompromising condition or respiratory anomaly.

Having addressed the special populations that are implicitly not the targets of broad comments:

Typical children tolerate colds just fine. It’s not the flu.

(Croup is also not a cold.)

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Exactly, newborns are regularly put in danger as people do not appreciate the seriousness of the most likely disease new borns could encounter, the common cold.

I appreciate you being complete here, though your opening also reads like you are doubling down on your previous response.

Your comment about croup is also bizarre, as the paragraph I included mention of it in is not about colds. Context matters.

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