To my knowledge (35 years as a Biomedical Engineering Tech), no current AW has the capability of doing pulse oximetry. It can do plethysmography (pulse rate) just fine but it does not have the LEDs and sensors to do oximetry. The AW6 will have them.
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Apple and Google Reveal How COVID-19 Exposure Notification Apps Will Function
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To my knowledge (35 years as a Biomedical Engineering Tech), no current AW has the capability of doing pulse oximetry. It can do plethysmography (pulse rate) just fine but it does not have the LEDs and sensors to do oximetry. The AW6 will have them.
If you contract the virus during testing something has seriously gone wrong and the likelihood of something like that happening is extreme small.
That is not a problem. This system allows the health authorities to test fewer people so they can save it for people with symptoms and notifications from this system.
Why do you think that you will get notified often?
How many people which you do not live with have you been staying closer than 6 feet for 10-15 minutes or more in the last 14 days? If you have, you have not been practising social distancing.
What made you decide that just ended now?
Setting aside feelings about what follows: we are a society with a health care system affected by capitalist and corporatist influences. "Survival" based on genetic sequence became is far less influential than birth (i.e., the status, privilege, geographic boundaries, etc. a person is born into), and for a long time.
So instead of being snarky, why don't you try to demonstrate some empathy?
Because we are over-reacting to COVID-19. When do we panic like this for the flu? Once again, now that more tests are available they are discovering this virus has a fractional death rate compared to what was originally believed.
I don't need empathy, because people like you aren't showing empathy to the people actually impacted by this.
And yes, survival of the fittest has been dead for some time with the advent of mandatory warning labels (e.g. caution, coffee is hot; do not eat labels on poison, etc). We should let natural selection take place.
The UK has chosen to not use the API provided by Apple and Google and rolled their own contact tracing tech. Perhaps you should do your research.
UK starts testing its own coronavirus contact tracing app
The UK government launched its first test of a coronavirus contact tracing app this week on a small island off the south coast of England.www.cnn.com
The pictures in this Macrumors story feature a platform to 'house' all contact tracing apps, not a contact tracing app or API provided by Apple/Google. Perhaps you should do your research, again, and look more carefully.
Well we don’t... because there is a difference between the flu and the coronavirus. And in addition to the “normal things” that kill people every year (such as the flu), we have lost more people in roughly three months than all of the Americans that died during the Vietnam conflict, over a multi-year period. That is a spike worth being concerned about.
It is incorrect to say “once again,” when you never provided anything previously to support what you are now saying “again.”
Assuming you are talking about doctors and scientists, you’re just flat-out wrong. If anything, there is a significant consensus that the number of deaths resulting from Coronavirus has been under-reported, and doctors have continued to be surprised by the different ways that CoViD-19 has been able to kill people (e.g., young, healthy people that are able to overcome the pulmonary issues are suddenly dying of strokes).
I’m not really sure what you’re trying to say here, unless you’re saying you’ve had CoViD-19, in which case, I’m glad to see that you appear to have made a recovery. But once again (proper usage, as I am repeating an earlier statement), I still don’t understand what you are trying to say.
Drop the sophomoric attitude. “Natural selection” is not synonymous with having no warning labels on consumer goods. Arguing otherwise just appears to place a thin veil over contempt for fellow persons, but it might explain why your statement about empathy was so confusing.
This lockdown, social isolation, keeping distance from people, cleaning your hands and your surrounding 100 times a day doing the opposite - making your immune system weak!
We're dealing with new disease\virus that our immune system yet to know how to protect against it, thats why the numbers are high at the moment, but in couple of years it will be like any other flu.
We're dealing with new disease\virus that our immune system yet to know how to protect against it, thats why the numbers are high at the moment, but in couple of years it will be like any other flu.
This thread is specifically about the implementation of an API to support government provided contact tracing apps. The UK is not using this system and their collection of postcodes is not relevant to this API and its privacy. You remain mistaken.
Without the exposure notification API, your iPhone is still sending Bluetooth data about 150 times per minute. This won't affect your battery any more than that.Sounds like this'll be a very worthwhile way to quickly deplete the tiny battery on my soon to be delivered SE 2020!
You remain extremely misinformed and mistaken!
“Apple and Google said that the API is intended to supplement rather than substitute for traditional contact tracing. In a statement, the companies said that the API is designed to make contact tracing apps work better”
I don't see how that quote is even relevant.
FYI "traditional contact tracing" means without using technology (interviews with the infected person to figure out where they have been and who they have been with).