Amazon will start testing drones that will drop prescriptions on your doorstep, literally

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Amazon will start testing drones that will drop prescriptions on your doorstep, literally
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Amazon says customers will be able to choose from more than 500 medications, including common treatments for conditions like the flu or pneumonia.COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Amazon will soon make prescription drugs fall from the sky when the e-commerce giant becomes the latest company to test drone deliveries for medications.

Amazon says customers will be able to choose from more than 500 medications, a list that includes common treatments for conditions like the flu or pneumonia, but not controlled substances. Intermountain Health started providing drone deliveries of prescriptions in 2021 in the Salt Lake City area and has been expanding the program, according to Daniel Duersch, supply chain director for the health care system. Intermountain is partnering with the logistics company Zipline to use drones that drop packages by parachute.that drones would be making deliveries by 2018. Even now, the e-commerce giant is only using the technology in two markets.

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