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Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold

posted by martyb on Sunday March 08 2020, @01:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the facial-tissue-sales-will-plummet dept.

takyon writes:

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.

This is not a coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) story. Do not discuss the coronavirus.

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  • (Score: 2, Offtopic) by edIII on Sunday March 08 2020, @06:45AM

    by edIII (791) on Sunday March 08 2020, @06:45AM (#968113)

    Actually, there might be a reason to talk about "it". I have a feeling that it won't be a simple antiviral geared towards strains of the common cold. It will be new technologies that are allowing us to target and kill viruses/bacteria in whole new ways. The kind of technologies where not one type of cancer is cured, but the foundations of nearly all cancers.

    In other words, I'm betting that something that could qualify as a cure for the common cold virus, is going to be pretty effective against a wide array of viruses, including that which shall not be named. Superbugs are here, but we're on the cusp of some super weapons in our toolbox too. I never thought there would be a cure for Ebola in my life time, and yet, there is one.

    I think that as long as we can survive, that kind of technology will be inevitable.

    Eliminating the common cold would save us tons of money too.

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