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Student athletes will now be donning Fitbits in an effort to study the connection between illnesses and wearable device tracking.
On April 1, the Pac-12 Conference announced a research collaboration with Fitbit and researchers at Stanford Medicine to study whether wearable devices can help detect and track infectious diseases like COVID-19.
About 1,000 student athletes across all Pac-12 universities will receive Fitbit Sense smartwatches to participate in the study. Continuing through 2021, the study will focus on student athletes participating in spring athletic programs and those training for upcoming sports seasons, including basketball, football, soccer and volleyball.
Researchers will be looking to identify any correlation between the health data from the watches and results from COVID-19 testing and weekly surveys about potential exposure and symptoms.
Pac-12, Fitbit and Stanford Medicine team up on COVID-19 research effort to help prevent spread of illness in student-athletes
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launched a new wearable for children called Fitbit Ace 3 that tracks user activity and sleep, and comes with an eight-day battery life. It also features a connected app that gamifies physical activity for kids, motivating them to get 60 minutes of activity a day coming at a time when millions of kids are learning remotely and missing out on the physical activity they would typically get in a school environment.
Image by dimazel - Adobe Stock (with elements of the image supplied by NASA) NASA is offering Fitbit devices to 1,000 mission-critical employees, including 150 astronauts, to mitigate the risk of spreading infectious disease among astronaut flight crews in the immediate preflight period.
NASA is offering a Fitbit device and Fitbit s Ready for Work solution to help employees performing mission-critical work make more informed decisions about going to work onsite during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As part of the pilot program, 1,000 NASA employees performing mission-critical work at six locations across the United States will receive Fitbit Charge 4 devices and access to Fitbit’s Ready for Work Daily Check-In experience. This includes 150 astronauts and NASA employees critical to future space missions who will use the Fitbit solution as part of the NASA Health Stabilization Program, which is aimed at mitigating the risk of occurrence of infectious disease amo
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NASA will be using Fitbit devices to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases among astronaut flight crews.
The agency is providing Fitbit devices to 1,000 of its employees, including 150 astronauts.
The Fitbit program aims to help NASA employees identify illnesses even before symptoms emerge.
Fitbit has announced that NASA will be offering the wearable maker s devices and Ready for Work solution to its employees as part of a pilot program. The new program has been launched to help astronauts and other mission-critical employees make an informed decision about going to work onsite during the pandemic.
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