New tool uses wearable sensor to detect COVID-19

U.K, Jan. 13 -- AI firm NeuTigers has launched a screening tool they say is almost twice as effective as temperature checks in predicting COVID-19. CovidDeep is a wearable device and app that can detect Covid-19 via a sensor.

NeuTigers, an artificial intelligence company that spun out of Princeton University, say the solution is over 90 per cent accurate in predicting whether a person has the virus or not - twice as effective as current triage tools, such as temperature checks and questionnaires.

COVID-19 affects people's biometrics and physiological markers in both obvious and nearly imperceptible ways, and CovidDeep uses advanced algorithms to detect changes in physiological patterns even before they are felt by the patient.

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