Smart watches could help fight COVID-19. Here s how. Personalized medicine could be the future to slowing this and future pandemics.
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People who don’t know they have the virus that causes COVID-19 are significantly more likely to spread it, accounting for more than 50% of transmissions according to some studies. Early detection is the key to slowing both this pandemic and future pandemics, and a growing number of scientists believe that smart watches – which measure subtle changes in heart rate and temperature – could hold the answer.
Of course, thermometers and methods of taking a patient’s pulse have existed for centuries and are easily administered by laypeople in their homes. But with COVID-19, the symptoms are so subtle, and the human body so inconsistent, that it’s easy for its symptoms to be missed.