CNBC March 8, 2020
- Amazon is working on a cure for the common cold in its highly secretive skunkworks group, “Grand Challenge.”
- The code name is “Project Gesundheit,” according to several people familiar with the project.
- Scientists have tried to develop new treatments for the cold since the 1950s, as the weeklong illness costs the economy at least $40 billion every year.
Amazon is working on a cure for the common cold in a years-long, top secret effort called “Project Gesundheit,” according to three people familiar with the effort.
The company has more than 100 working out of Grand Challenge, a research and development group that sits under its cloud division, AWS. A small team in this...
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