Project Gesundheit
Project Gesundheit is an initiative by Amazon.com to find a cure for the common cold.[a] The initiative is reported to be directed from Amazon Web Services' Grand Challenge research and development group.[2][3][4][5] Grand Challenge, also known as 1492 and Amazon X, was founded in 2014 and was reported by CNBC to be staffed by "former Google X engineers and founders of various health start-ups".[6]
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ The common cold may be caused by a human coronavirus.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Myint, Steven H. (1995). "Human Coronavirus Infections". In Siddell, Stuart G. (ed.). The Coronaviridae. The Viruses. Plenum Press. p. 391. ISBN 978-0-306-44972-7.
Human respiratory coronaviruses are now well accepted as causes of upper respiratory tract illness and, in particular, the common cold.
- ^ Farr, Christina (2020-03-06). "Amazon is secretly working on a cure for the common cold". CNBC. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
- ^ Osborne, Charlie (2020-03-09). "Meet Project Gesundheit: Amazon's secret project to cure the common cold". ZDNet. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
- ^ Pearce, Tim (2020-03-06). "'Project Gesundheit': Amazon is trying to make a common cold vaccine". Washington Examiner. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
- ^ Finley, Dane (2020-03-10). "Amazon has secretly been working on a cure for the common cold". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
- ^ Eugene Kim; Christina Farr (June 5, 2018). "Inside Amazon's Grand Challenge — a secretive lab working on cancer research and other ventures".
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