Our friends over at Ava are working to find out if the Women's Health Bracelet we collaborated on can be utilized to diagnose and monitor symptoms potentially related to COVID-19.

• The Ava Bracelet is a wrist worn medical device* that tracks breathing rate, pulse rate, skin temperature, heart rate variability and perfusion.
• The most common symptoms of COVID-19 include fever (87.9% of cases), dry cough (67.7% of cases), and shortness of breath (18.6% of cases).^1–4 
• During a fever, body temperature and pulse rate increase.^5–7 Shortness of breath can be measured by an increased breathing rate.
• Ava believes that the Ava Bracelet could be used to generate data on early signs of COVID-19 and monitoring of symptoms in users at home under medical supervision.

Learn more and find out how you can get involved

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2. Zhang J-J, Dong X, Cao Y-Y, et al. Clinical characteristics of 140 patients infected by SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan, China. Allergy. 2020;00:1-12. doi:10.1111/all.14238
3. Guan W-J, Ni Z-Y, Hu Y, et al. Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China. N Engl J Med. 2020:1-13. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2002032
4. Sahu KK, Mishra AK, Lal A. Comprehensive update on current outbreak of novel coronavirus infection (2019-nCoV). Ann Transl Med. 2020. doi:10.21037/atm.2020.02.92
5. Chen G, Xie J, Dai G, et al. Validity of Wrist and Forehead Temperature in Temperature Screening in the General Population During the Outbreak of 2019 Novel Coronavirus: a prospective real-world study. 2020. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2020/03/06/2020.03.02.2003....
6. Karjalainen J, Viitasalo M. Fever and Cardiac Rhythm.Arch Intern Med. 1986;146:1169-1171.
7. Lyon DM.The relation of pulse-rate to temperature in febrile conditions. QJM An Internatinoal J Med. 1927;os-20(78):205-218. doi:10.1093/qjmed/os-20.78.205