NEW DELHI: As the world grapples with growing cases of covid-19, medical researchers and wearable companies are teaming up to pool their resources to find ways to detect early symptoms, minimise contact with infected patients and ensure compliance with social distancing norms.
A case in point is the newly formed consortium by Google-owned wearable company Fitbit, Scripps Research and Stanford Medicine that strives to utilise the data gathered through Fitibit's various wearables to detect and curb growth of covid-19.
According to Stanford Medicine, wearable devices can measure heart rate and skin temperature, which are known to go up when the body is fighting an infection.