[FRIAM] New information on COVID-19

Thu Apr 23 22:59:38 EDT 2020

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https://www.sparkfun.com/products/15271 .

Cody Smith

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 8:39 PM Steven A Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

> Merle, et al -
>
> Interesting article...
>
> We’ve had two life-threatening incidents, one trekking in Nepal and the
> other in a remote part of Sri Lanka, where the availability of a pulse
> oximeter made all the difference. We now routinely check our oxygenation
> with one.
>
> Ed
>
> I have had some experience with a mountaineering spO2 meter and a Withings
> fitness monitor with built in spO2... the fitness monitor required removing
> the unit from the band and holding it diligently against the pad of a
> finger, and that didn't always give a good reading, but once I understood
> it's idiosyncracies it wasn't bad.  both devices are long-since
> nonfunctional (not to be worn swimming or in the shower it seems).
>
> It seems like IOT wearables (already saturating the market for fitness
> applications) like my Withings could be getting better.  Maybe even
> good-enough to be useful in predicting/monitoring/tracking COVID19
> symptoms/onset, at least statistically...
>
> There is some precedent with the Kinsa effort to use their IOT
> thermometer data to predict abnormal levels of  influenza-like symptoms
> <https://healthweather.us/?mode=Atypical>.
>
> There seem to be a number of pulse-oximeter fitness trackers.
>
> https://3dinsider.com/pulse-oximeter-fitness-trackers/
>
> The Oura ring <https://ouraring.com/ucsf-tempredict-study>'s body
> temperature sensing has already been pressed into service for a study.  I
> don't know if the "band" form factor is able to maintain good enough
> skin-contact to be consistent...
>
> I just did a search on the topic
> <https://www.google.com/search?q=fitness+activity+tracker+covid&oq=fitness+activity+tracker+covid&aqs=chrome..69i57j33.6879j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8>
> and found a number of speculative popular articles on the topic, but
> haven't had time to dig through them.
>
> This was one of the more promising:
>
>
> https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/europe/fitbits-new-coronavirus-feature-can-connect-users-telemedicine-services-indoor-work-out
>
> Our own Mohammed El-Beltagy (cc;ed here) is CTO for a Swedish company (
> RaceFox <https://www.racefox.com/en/home>) doing using fitness monitors
> for athletic performance enhancement.   He may be more up on the
> possibilities?
>
> - Steve
>
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> On Apr 23, 2020, at 6:32 PM, Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org> wrote:
>
> I found it credible.  We're adding a pulse oximeter to the kit.
>
> There was another report,
> https://meaww.com/six-austrian-divers-permanently-damaged-lungs-recovery-mild-coronavirus-covid-19. scuba
> divers recovered from mild covid infection and ended up with lungs so
> damaged that it is not safe for them to dive anymore.  So many people with
> less demanding pastimes may be in a similar way but not manifesting the
> problem, though a dive safety exam would turn it up, and maybe a pulse
> oximeter, too.
>
> I wonder if any of those cell phone pulsimeters could be upgraded to
> oximeters with some calibration?
>
> -- rec --
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 5:32 PM Merle Lefkoff <merlelefkoff at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Has the list read this article in the NYTimes.  What's your take?
>>
>>
>> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testing-pneumonia.html?smid=em-share
>>
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