The researchers examined the data from the first 6 weeks of their study. As a result, it was found that fitness trackers can contribute to the efforts of doctors in the fight against coronavirus infection.
The study was launched in the spring of 2020. It used special software that collects information from smartwatches and physical activity trackers. It can also recognize symptoms of infection and store the results of human diagnostic tests.
At the end of the experiment, experts discovered that newfangled gadgets are capable of detecting cases of coronavirus infection by assessing changes in the frequency of blood pulsations, sleep time and physical activity, as well as data on sensations that its owners enter into devices.
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