Becker's Healthcare February 24, 2022
The Pentagon experimented with an algorithm that uses data gathered by fitness trackers to predict whether a user has COVID-19 two days before they show symptoms, Politico reported Feb. 23.
The Pentagon’s Department of Innovation Unit tracked 11,500 users wearing the Garmin Fēnix 6 watch and an Oura ring, from June 2020 to September 2021. The watch tracked the user’s respiration rate, oxygen saturation and heart rate, while the ring collected heart rate and skin temperature.
The researchers used...
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