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Amazon is reportedly working to find a cure for the common cold
Amazon disrupted the books, grocery, and shipping business, and now it's set its sights on viral infections. The tech company has apparently tasked a team of employees to research and develop a cure for the common cold, a CNBC report indicates today. Under an effort called "Project Gesundheit," three people familiar with the effort tell CNBC that Amazon is specifically looking to develop a vaccine that would stave off cold infections. This small team exists under the broader Grand Challenge group within Amazon, CNBC says.
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Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold
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Could I have a drug overdose?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Sunday March 08 2020, @01:55AM (16 children)
Yup. And, one vaccine isn't going to protect you from all the many viruses that can cause colds. Even IF they were to succesfully inoculate you against the ten most common, you'd still catch cold. Maybe less frequently, but it's still going to happen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 4, Touché) by BK on Sunday March 08 2020, @02:05AM (3 children)
So the first step is to kill all the rhinos. I guess we’re well on our way.
...but you HAVE heard of me.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Hartree on Sunday March 08 2020, @02:15AM (2 children)
"So the first step is to kill all the rhinos."
Vaccinate the chubby unicorns?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2020, @02:35AM
Well the Rhinoceros is the closest thing to a unicorn that exists so I guess curing the rhino virus would be the closest thing to curing the common cold?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2020, @09:36AM
Then we'd just catch hippovirus instead,
(Score: 1) by NPC-131072 on Sunday March 08 2020, @02:18AM (1 child)
I thought immunity to everything [bigthink.com] was common in Arkansas?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday March 08 2020, @06:13PM
Runaway is the kind of man whose hand gets six separate headaches (one in the palm and one in each finger) every time he thinks of bashing the bishop, out of pure self-defense.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2020, @03:09AM (2 children)
Especially where a highly enough placed $BUREAUCRAT can be, say, persuaded, to make it mandatory. Any and all effects on the health of @GRUNTS are strictly incidental.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2020, @04:59PM (1 child)
Face masks are cheaper than vaccines, that the scam that BIG VACCINE doesn't want you to know.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2020, @06:12PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9wi0cPrU4U [youtube.com]
(Score: 5, Interesting) by barbara hudson on Sunday March 08 2020, @03:23AM (3 children)
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2020, @05:02PM (2 children)
Sure is a bumpy ride for 3 years tho. Jump on board!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by barbara hudson on Sunday March 08 2020, @05:50PM (1 child)
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 09 2020, @03:16AM
Yep. And thallium is the other 'widow's [best] friend'.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by legont on Sunday March 08 2020, @05:15AM
I've read somewhere that since SARS1 they discovered over 500 coronaviruses in bats alone. On the other hand, perhaps they all have some common target to explore.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday March 08 2020, @02:27PM
This is the dogma, although (according to a Netflix docu-poli-adver-tainment mini series) there's a guy working on the theory that he can sort of pre-mutate a panopoly of potential viral structures and inoculate with that to prevent heretofore unseen viruses. As far as I watched, he was testing on pigs in South America and showed some success with a series of 7 inoculations - they're trying to get that number down.
What's needed is a different approach, the "pre-program the immune system to recognize the threat" vaccination theory has been well developed and found its limits long ago. Something like an implant that releases Oseltamivir (Tamiflu) on demand with a "smart" sensor recognizing incipient significant viral infection. Of course, more mechanisms of action in the implant beyond Oseltamivir would also be a TM Very Good Thing.
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(Score: 2) by EvilSS on Monday March 09 2020, @02:29AM