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Comment by yolo3000

15 hours ago

I'm curious how the ring detected it in advance? I also discovered my Covid when I looked at my Garmin watch and my resting heart rate was 100, until then I had thought I had too much sun that day.

Some of the metrics were out of whack, I think my average body temp was up along with my resting heart rate both asleep and awake.

It somehow takes all that and gave me a "you might be sick" notification.

  • How is that predicting in advance though? Sounds like it measured active symptoms like a change in body temp etc. That's not prediction, that's reaction.

    • Device detects 0.1 degree average temp increase. I don’t.

      Like your car will start with a small noise first, you can’t hear it. But in time the small noise becomes a big noise just before things break.

      If you catch it in the small noise part, you can proactively prepare.

    • I think it is fair to assume they meant before symptoms? Which, yes, your heart rate is a symptom. No, it isn't one most people consider.