Learn the facts about cold sores so you can face every cold sore with confidenceâfrom the first tingle until itâs bye-bye blister. 1  Most nonprescription treatments work the same way. 2  Cold sores are only contagious when you can see a blister. 3  The cold sore virus (HSV-1) cannot spread beyond the lip area.
It came up with a total debt of $2 trillion for all states. California still owes the most under the alternative computation, but the state's total debt drops significantly, to $307 billion. With the Pew numbers, New Jersey follows with $183 billion of debt and Illinois is next at $150 billion.
Everybody knows that the US is the worldâs biggest borrower, owing a massive amount of money to China, which holds $1.15 trillion in bonds issued by Uncle Sam. With more than $16.2 trillion in debt â including the money the US owes to itself to pay for programs like Social Security â the US debt-to-GDP ratio is around 100%. (Not counting so-called intragovernmental holdings of debt, the ratio is more like 68%, according to the Government Accountability Office.)