AMZN's Healthcare Skunkworks: Project Gesundheit, (a.k.a. code name 1492, ' a new world project') :
'Amazon is secretly working on a cure for the common cold'
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 group, including scientists and technologists, is now working on a treatment for the world’s most common illness. The team is hoping to develop a vaccine, but is exploring a variety of approaches to the problem. Internally, the effort is sometimes referred to as the “vaccine project.” Colds cost the U.S. economy an estimated $40 billion per year, both because of physician visits and lost productivity, according to a landmark 2003 study from the University of Michigan. Grand Challenge, which hasn’t been publicly acknowledged by Amazon, has a mandate to tackle big problems, ideally finding solutions that will have a major impact on humanity. The group, which has sometimes been known by its code-name “1492,” is run by Babak Parviz, who previously worked at Alphabet’s research and development effort, then known as Google X"
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/06/amazon-is-secretly-working-on-a-cure-for-the-common-cold.html
More from Pop Mechanics article:
'Is Amazon Secretly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold?Maybe…but no one really knows why.'
"Amazon certainly has the money to fund this research, but why would an e-commerce company want to do battle with the common cold? Amazon hasn't publicly acknowledged Grand Challenge so it's unlikely we'll know in the near future, though Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is known for his grand—if not entirely plausible—ideas."
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a31293817/amazon-common-cold/