INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The study, conducted by the Central Queensland University Australia (CQUniversity), in partnership with the Cleveland Clinic, will employ
recently been validated by a University of Arizona external study conducted specifically to determine the accuracy of its measurement of
respiratory rates during sleep, which the device uses to provide quality of sleep scores to its users
That study showed it to be among the most accurate measurement tools for respiratory rate short of invasive procedures, which is what has
led researchers behind this new study to hypothesize that it could be valuable as a sort of early-warning system for detecting signs of
abnormal respiratory behavior in COVID-19 patients before those symptoms are detectable by other means.The WHOOP team says that the
due to either one of two causes: environmental factors, like unusually high temperatures or significant differences in oxygen concentration,
or something happening within the body, like a lower-respiratory tract infection.COVID-19 is specifically a lower-respiratory tract
infection, unlike the flu or a cold, which are upper-respiratory issues
(which are relatively easy to cancel out) and instances of COVID-19
And because the WHOOP wearable is designed to look for deviations as a sign of distress, among the other sings it monitors, it could notice
changes to respiratory rates relative to baselines before an individual becomes aware of any significant shortness of breath themselves.This
present in the app from which it will begin, with a target of enrolling at least 500 individuals with positive COVID-19 test results
for potential COVID-19 cases, including a study being conducted by UCSF using the Oura Ring.Unlike with previous pandemics, the current
have a lot of self-quantifying health devices in circulation
Those could help us get a better grip on assessing the spread, as well as trends related to how it circulates and ebbs/grows within a
