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St. Louis-area doctors report that they are seeing a rise in cold cases, as residents drop their masks and return to crowded spaces.

"It hit us like a truck," Mark Freeman said of his recent illness.

Freeman is feeling healthy again after his whole family — including 1-year-old son Ben — started showing some familiar symptoms, listing them off as a "stuffy nose, sinus pressure, probably low-grade fever" but overall he "just felt miserable."

The Freemans got tested for COVID-19, for strep throat, but nothing came back positive. They had a severe cold, one Ben likely brought home from his day care.

"It was rough. It was definitely a wake-up call that we are still kind of getting used to all the bugs that are out there just because we have been quarantined for so long," Freeman said.

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