Show HN: An attempt to spot Covid-19 outbreaks using wearable devices

Re:Show HN: An attempt to spot Covid-19 outbreaks using wear... by a9h74j on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @05:47PM (#22883479)

As you might be aware, California Governor Newsom in his TV briefing yesterday referred to encountering an abundance of tech-inspired proposals -- as I understood this, in the areas of monitoring and tracking. I also heard him to say there will be some attempt made to "pick one" so-to-speak, for a focus in participation, tech and data.

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Re:Show HN: An attempt to spot Covid-19 outbreaks using wear... by helloworld on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @05:56PM (#22883566)

Thanks, I hadn't heard that yet. This might be one of those situations where it's preferable to "let a thousand flowers bloom."

For example, in another comment, I mentioned a study that's using the Oura ring, which is a great product, but has a far smaller user base than the mass-market Fitbit and Apple Watch audience that our study is focused on. So it's really additive to have both of our research efforts going forward.

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Re:Show HN: An attempt to spot Covid-19 outbreaks using wear... by a9h74j on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @07:37PM (#22884450)

To be fair Newsom might have implied several winners, but same point taken.

ABC7 in SF just reported a collaboration as "Stanford and Fitbit", giving innovators.stanford.edu (not working) as a site to sign up. Relatedly I find the following:

https://hitconsultant.net/2020/04/14/fitbit-scripps-stanford...

I could imagine participants in any device-specific work opting-in to sharing anonymized data with one-or-more broader-based studies/analyses, if that is not part of opting-in to the device-specific work in the first place.

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Re:Show HN: An attempt to spot Covid-19 outbreaks using wear... by helloworld on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @07:43PM (#22884502)

It would be great if there were a way to join multiple studies at the same time. At the moment, though, you have to sign up separately for the Stanford COVID-19 Wearables Study: https://innovations.stanford.edu/#section-wearables

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Re:Show HN: An attempt to spot Covid-19 outbreaks using wear... by de_watcher on Thursday April 16, 2020 @10:59AM (#22890044)

It's not a technical problem. We can start a useful tracking almost immediately, but it's a question of freedoms.

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