[FRIAM] New information on COVID-19
Steven A Smith
sasmyth at swcp.com
Thu Apr 23 23:16:38 EDT 2020
sew one into your mask with an LED readout so everyone can see your
spO2, heart rate and temperature?
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11050 (just hold this one under your
tongue) while masked?
On 4/23/20 8:59 PM, cody dooderson wrote:
> If anyone needs an idea for a microbit project here is
> one, https://www.sparkfun.com/products/15271 .
>
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> Cody Smith
>
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> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 8:39 PM Steven A Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com
> <mailto: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
>
>> _______________________
>>
>> Ed Angel
>>
>> Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science
>> Laboratory (ARTS Lab)
>> Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico
>>
>> 1017 Sierra Pinon
>> Santa Fe, NM 87501
>> 505-984-0136 (home) angel at cs.unm.edu <mailto:angel at cs.unm.edu>
>> 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel
>>
>>> On Apr 23, 2020, at 6:32 PM, Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org
>>> <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>>>
>>> --
>>> Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.
>>> President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy
>>> emergentdiplomacy.org <http://emergentdiplomacy.org/>
>>> Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
>>> merlelefkoff at gmail.com <mailto:merlelefoff at gmail.com>
>>> mobile: (303) 859-5609
>>> skype: merle.lelfkoff2
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