- As the US continues to experience widespread testing shortages in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, Chicago researchers have developed a novel solution to the problem.
- It’s a wearable health monitor in the form of a patch that sits below the throat and continuously checks for coronavirus symptoms, like coughing and rising body temperature.
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Earlier this week, Arizona hospitalist Dr. Matt Heinz told one news outlet that he’s seen cases of patients early in the coronavirus pandemic who died while waiting to be tested for the presence of the COVID-19 virus — cases in which the symptoms looked very much like those for COVID-19.
You can find plenty of examples of that, showing how adequate testing remains a problem in the US, even after more than 1.2 million cases of the coronavirus have been identified here and more than 73,000 people have died. Couple that with still-widespread stay-at-home orders, and you have a situation that practically cries out, at least to some researchers, for a simple at-home test that catches the virus early. Something like the new experimental wearable health monitor developed by Chicago researchers at Northwestern University and the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, which watches for signs of the coronavirus and can alert doctors remotely to its presence.
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