Posted on 7/7/2020
Although it might be tempting to rely on your fitness tracker to catch early signs of COVID-19, Northwestern University researchers caution that consumer wearables are not sophisticated enough to monitor the complicated illness.
The Northwestern team, led by bioelectronics pioneer John A. Rogers, PhD, published a perspective in the journal Science Advances, in which they differentiate between popular consumer electronics and clinical-grade monitoring systems. Rogers co-authored the perspective with Shuai Xu, MD, a Northwestern Medicine dermatologist, and Hyoyoung Jeong, PhD, a postdoctoral fello...