Oura Ring for continuous temperature monitoring

A quick temperature reading from the forehead may not tell much about a developing fever, as with COVID-19.  Better yet would be a continuous temperature monitoring device as described in this piece from the University of California at San Francisco.  “We launched TemPredict in March of 2020 to assess whether we could identify the onset of COVID-19 symptoms using continuously collected, wearables-derived dermal temperature data from the Oura ring sensor device. No prior studies have demonstrated the feasibility of using such data to identify fevers. Although TemPredict is still ongoing, here we present early results from the first 50 subjects with enough data to meet analysis inclusion criteria. In these analyses, we demonstrate that fever detection and prediction via wearables is a promising avenue for research focused on improving fever tracking in the COVID-19 pandemic and future pandemics.”  MORE

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