You need to rip off the Band-Aid and let the air get at it:
"Stick-on body sensors offer new hope against COVID-19; Patch made by Boston company monitors temperatures changes that could indicate onset of infection" by Hiawatha Bray Globe Staff, July 27, 2020
You can’t cure COVID-19 with a Band-Aid, but you might be able to detect it.
Dermal Photonics of Peabody says it has made a new kind of temperature sensor that’s attached to the body like an adhesive bandage, and can quickly detect changes in body heat that may indicate the onset of an infection. Compared to the smart watches and fitness trackers that are now being tested as possible COVID-19 detectors, the patch, called NIRA Temp, is smaller, simpler and a lot cheaper.
Dermal founder David Bean said NIRA Temp is ideal for public schools that might otherwise have to administer hundreds of manual temperature checks on students. “You apply it in the morning, and once they’re at school, they can just be regular kids,” Bean said.
Probably some tracking thing, too.
Dermal is the second company with Boston connections to market a body patch for COVID detection. VitalConnect, whose devices are used to monitor conditions of seriously ill patients when they’re at home, is marketing the product to institutions and sports leagues to keep tabs of healthy people.
I don't think we are ever $haking it, and say goodbye to lucrative $ports.
NIRA Temp can transmit temperature data to the school via a parent’s smartphone. That way, the school could decide if a child with a high temperature should remain at home. Bean foresees NIRA Temp being similarly used in factories and office buildings.
Let the hacking begin, and you are looking at the outlines of the certificates of immunity and digital ID crap the globalist control freaks want to introduce as part of the Great Re$et.
Time to rip the patch off!
The spot temperature checks used at many offices and retail stores only measure temperature at a particular moment. They can be useful in identifying people with high fever, but can miss subtle changes that could indicate the onset of an infection. NIRA Temp is meant to be worn around the clock, even during sleep, so it becomes far easier to see potential infections if the software detects a sudden spike in body heat.
What if you fart near it?
Does that raise the heat?
This is a psychopathic control freaks wet dream, and it will not stand.
Due to go on sale in August, NIRA Temp joins a host of wearable devices being repurposed as potential COVID-19 trackers. University researchers are testing smart watches such as the Apple Watch and fitness trackers like the Fitbit Versa, which monitor a user’s heart rate and respiration, to see if these gadgets provide early warning of COVID infection, but the Apple Watch and Fitbit Versa don’t monitor body temperature, a key indicator of possible infection. Besides, these devices are relatively bulky and expensive — starting at $400 for an Apple Watch, for instance.
You know, I'm starting to get a little hot under the collar reading this crap!
By contrast, a NIRA Temp patch costs $50. It’s about the size of a quarter, and is taped under the armpit. It has a Bluetooth radio that transmits temperature data to a smartphone app, and Bean said the battery life runs from one to two years.
Hey, teledoc, what's this lump in my armpit?
Other body sensors being studied for COVID detection include the ADAM or Advanced Acousto-Mechanic device, which attaches to the base of the throat. In addition to tracking temperature, ADAM has a tiny microphone to monitor respiration, since coughing and shortness of breath are early COVID-19 indicators.
“It’s almost like a digital stethoscope,” said John Rogers, the Northwestern University engineering professor who heads the development team.
ADAM is undergoing clinical trials with healthcare providers and later this year will be tested by the Defense Department.
The good old MIC.
The VitalPatch from San Jose-based VitalConnect, has been on the market for several years, with about 100,000 units shipped. It’s a little larger and a lot fancier than the other stick-on sensors, capable of monitoring multiple vital signs, including heart rate, respiration, temperature, physical activity and even posture, and relaying the data to a hospital or doctor.
VitalPatch “puts the capabilities of an ICU on your chest,” said the company’s Boston-based chief executive Peter Van Haur.
Designed to let seriously ill people remain at home, hospitals provide VitalPatch to patients at a cost of about $16 a day. Already authorized as a patient-monitoring device by the US Food and Drug Administration, VitalPatch was recently cleared for emergency use in tracking the heart rhythms of people hospitalized for COVID-19 infections.
This crap is breaking my heart.
Van Haur said VitalPatch can also be used by healthy people as a COVID-19 early warning system. The company plans a trial with student volunteers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who will wear the patches when they return to campus this fall.
Don't go to any parties, and what do you mean it left a scar?
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Related:
The Globe Says ‘Ahhh’
Big Whoop
Now take a deep breath:
"Apple and Google introduce an app-free virus-tracing program they hope will catch on with the public" by Hiawatha Bray Globe Staff, September 1, 2020
Apple and Google have introduced a notification program for their smartphones that will automatically alert users when they’ve been in contact with someone infected with the coronavirus.
Max Igan is right. Throw that thing away or leave it at home.
The updates from the two technology giants would address a key shortcoming of earlier contact-tracing programs: Users had to install a special app to receive the alerts. The goal is to make the tracing program more appealing for state governments to adopt at a time when such efforts have not been widely embraced by the public.
That is "democracy" for you!
Meanwhile, a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that made a contact-tracing app for public agencies is now is offering to help them take advantage of the new Apple-Google alert system.
The initial tracing effort by Apple and Google, which they introduced in April, required users to install an app provided by government health departments. The system used Bluetooth technology to signal when a phone user was near someone who had been confirmed to be infected, without revealing their identity.
Would they be one of the 9 out of 10 false positives or what?
Six US states and a number of foreign countries have adopted the system, but the download requirement made it less likely that the public would willingly use it.
The new approach simplifies the process by building the alert into Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android software operating systems. Users get on-screen messages telling them how to activate the feature, but only if they live in a state that’s running an electronic contact-tracking program.
IPhone users won’t need to download a separate app. They will simply fill out a form agreeing to participate in the program. When a person is exposed to someone who is possibly infected, the user’s phone will get a push notification. Each state can decide what form this notification will take. It might be a text message or an e-mail, for instance.
Will it be in the fine print?
Android users must still download an app, but this happens automatically when a user agrees to participate in the tracking program.
Apple and Google said that Maryland, Nevada, and Virginia will be the first states to offer the updated service, along with the District of Columbia. The software is already available for iPhones in an upgrade for the iOS 13.7 software; the Android version becomes available later this month for all phones running Android Version 6.0 or newer.
I'll bet 5G has something to do with this, too.
MIT’s PathCheck Foundation, which made a COVID contact-tracing app that’s in use in Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, and Cyprus, said that it can help US states integrate the Apple/Google technology into their public health networks.
“We can get them going within a week,” said Ramesh Raskar, the foundation’s founder and an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab.
The biggest challenge, Raskar said, will be getting infected people to voluntarily enroll. Many might be unwilling to risk public exposure, even though the Apple-Google system does not reveal any users’ identities. Raskar noted that accurate contact tracing can save lives, even if only a small percentage of infected people let themselves be tracked.
Apple and Google cited a report from Oxford University that said a contact tracing program in which only 15 percent of infected people used a tracking app could reduce infections by 15 percent and deaths by 11 percent.
Even more than the 99.96% that survive, of which only 6% are COVID specific?
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This isn't about the mythical COVID anymore, folks, this is about contract tracing in service of a total global surveillance grid -- with a sticky patch!
