<div dir="ltr"><div>If anyone needs an idea for a microbit project here is one, <a href="https://www.sparkfun.com/products/15271">https://www.sparkfun.com/products/15271</a> .</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Cody Smith</div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 8:39 PM Steven A Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Merle, et al -</p>
<p>Interesting article...<br>
</p>
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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.
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Ed<br>
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<p>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).<br>
</p>
<p>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... <br>
</p>
<p>There is some precedent with the Kinsa effort to use their <a href="https://healthweather.us/?mode=Atypical" target="_blank">IOT thermometer
data to predict abnormal levels of influenza-like symptoms</a>.
<br>
</p>
<p>There seem to be a number of pulse-oximeter fitness trackers.<br>
</p>
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<p><a href="https://3dinsider.com/pulse-oximeter-fitness-trackers/" target="_blank">https://3dinsider.com/pulse-oximeter-fitness-trackers/</a></p>
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<p>The <a href="https://ouraring.com/ucsf-tempredict-study" target="_blank">Oura ring</a>'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... <br>
</p>
<p>I just did a <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=fitness+activity+tracker+covid&oq=fitness+activity+tracker+covid&aqs=chrome..69i57j33.6879j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8" target="_blank">search
on the topic</a> and found a number of speculative popular
articles on the topic, but haven't had time to dig through them.</p>
<p>This was one of the more promising:<br>
</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/europe/fitbits-new-coronavirus-feature-can-connect-users-telemedicine-services-indoor-work-out" target="_blank">https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/europe/fitbits-new-coronavirus-feature-can-connect-users-telemedicine-services-indoor-work-out</a></p>
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<p>Our own Mohammed El-Beltagy (cc;ed here) is CTO for a Swedish
company (<a href="https://www.racefox.com/en/home" target="_blank">RaceFox</a>) doing using
fitness monitors for athletic performance enhancement. He may be
more up on the possibilities?</p>
<p>- Steve<br>
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<div>On Apr 23, 2020, at 6:32 PM, Roger Critchlow
<<a href="mailto:rec@elf.org" target="_blank">rec@elf.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr">I found it credible. We're adding
a pulse oximeter to the kit.
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<div>There was another report, <a href="https://meaww.com/six-austrian-divers-permanently-damaged-lungs-recovery-mild-coronavirus-covid-19" target="_blank">https://meaww.com/six-austrian-divers-permanently-damaged-lungs-recovery-mild-coronavirus-covid-19</a>. 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.</div>
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<div>I wonder if any of those cell phone
pulsimeters could be upgraded to oximeters with some
calibration?</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 23, 2020
at 5:32 PM Merle Lefkoff <<a href="mailto:merlelefkoff@gmail.com" target="_blank">merlelefkoff@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Has the
list read this article in the NYTimes. What's
your take?</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testing-pneumonia.html?smid=em-share" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:16px" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testing-pneumonia.html?smid=em-share</a><br>
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<div>Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.<br>
President, Center for Emergent
Diplomacy<br>
<a href="http://emergentdiplomacy.org/" target="_blank">emergentdiplomacy.org</a></div>
<div>Santa Fe, New
Mexico, USA</div>
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