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NASA Is Using Fitbits to Prevent COVID Spread Among Astronauts – Futurism
“Based on a user’s daily check-in, the solution will provide NASA employees with daily guidance to help them decide whether to go to work or stay home.”
To prevent the spread of COVID-19 across its facilities, NASA is handing out Fitbit devices to 1,000 of its employees, including 150 astronauts.
The wrist-worn devices can track several key health metrics, including body temperature. By logging all that data, the agency is hoping to get ahead of any outbreaks of COVID in any of its facilities, which stretch across the entire country.
There is evidence that resting heart rate data and other key health indicators from wearables have the potential…
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