system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Can you have two colds at once?
gpt
Yes, of course. Not just colds, you can be infected by multiple pathogens at once, which is one of the reasons why doctors might sometimes prescribe antibiotics to someone who is afflicted with a cold - to eliminate any bacterial infections potentially active even if it won't affect the virus. That's also the point of broad-spectrum antibiotics, when doctors prescribe that, it's because they suspect that a patient is infected by multiple bacterial infections at once.