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“Be prepared for the possibility that those sniffles or symptoms after coming back will be COVID.”

We tend to think of the disease as a respiratory problem, given all the coughs and sniffles it produces, but it’s really more of a vascular disease, impacting any system that relies on blood vessels.

To deliver sentiment, the film instead relies on a score that sniffles as though a racehorse is being taken out to get shot.

According to CNN, Hicks was "audibly sniffling with tears," resulting in a brief interruption to proceedings and both she and the jury leaving the room.

You were sniffling even before anything much happened onstage.