According to American researchers, the connected watch ofAppleis able to alert of a potential infection incoronaviruswhich continues to rage at the moment. Indeed, thanks to its heart rate sensor, the wearable could detect anomalies indicating contagion. Following an alert sent to the wearer, they would then be able to isolate themselves if necessary.
It was students from the University of California, in collaboration with the Mount Sinai Health System hospital network in New York, who were able to demonstrate the effectiveness of such a system when the Wuhan disease had already caused death of nearly two million people.
The blood oxygen sensor too
In addition to the heart rate monitor, the latestApple WatchSeries 6released at the end of last year also includes a chip capable of measuring the oxygen level in the blood. For its part, this could also help detect COVID-19 by identifying a “silent hypoxia” preceding the most significant symptoms.
Taken over byCBS, however, the news still remains in the realm of discovery to this day. Thus, we are still far from a hypothetical native functionality to detect the coronavirus on the wrist. But this scientific advance is encouraging and reinforces the status of the Watch as a devicemedical.
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