[FRIAM] New information on COVID-19
cody dooderson
d00d3rs0n at gmail.com
Fri Apr 24 01:53:05 EDT 2020
Is that a rectal thermometer?
Cody Smith
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 9:16 PM Steven A Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
> 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 .
>
>
>
> 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
>>
>> _______________________
>>
>> 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
>> 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel
>>
>> 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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