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Global wearable brand Fitbit on Thursday announced that it has developed a high-quality, low-cost and easy-to-use emergency ventilator called Fitbit Flow to meet global needs during the Covid-19 pandemic. The ventilator has obtained an Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) from the US Food &amp; Drug Administration (FDA). ‘Fitbit Flow' builds on standard resuscitator bags, like those used by paramedics, with sophisticated instruments, sensors, and alarms that work together to support automated compressions and patient monitoring, the company said in a statement. The device is designed to be intuitive and simple to use, potentially helping to reduce the strain on specialised staff who are typically needed to operate a commercial ventilator. To develop and test ‘Fitbit Flow', the company worked with emergency medicine clinicians caring for Covid-19 patients at the Oregon Health &amp; Science University (OHSU) Hospital in the US. "We saw an opportunity to rally our expertise in advanced sensor development, manufacturing, and our global supply chain to address the critical and ongoing need for ventilators and help make a difference in the global fight against this virus," James Park, co-founder and CEO of Fitbit, said in a statement. Other similar emergency ventilators vary in the combination of features they offer, but according to the Fitbit, it believes that none delivers all of the attributes of its device at the same lower price range. According to the company, the goal is to supply these devices to health care systems around the world that do not have a sufficient number of traditional commercial ventilators. ‘Fitbit Flow' is designed to be used only when a traditional commercial ventilator is not available. "Fitbit Flow is a great example of the incredible innovation that emerges when academia and industry employ problem-based innovation to respond quickly to an important need," said David Sheridan, Assistant Professor at OHSU. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/us-to-donate-ventilators-to-india-to-fight-coronavirus-trump/articleshow/75770265.cms">Trump calls Modi a 'good friend', promising to donate ventilators to India to fight coronavirus</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/central-government-to-use-3100-crore-from-pm-cares-for-ventilators-migrants-welfare/articleshow/75731564.cms">Central government to use ₹3,100 crore from PM-CARES for ventilators, migrants' welfare</a>

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Frankfurt Am Main, Apr 7 (AFP) - Germany's centre for disease control on Tuesday urged people with smartwatches and fitness bands to share their health data to help keep track of the spread of the coronavirus.The Robert Koch Institute said it was launching an app called Corona Datenspende (Corona Data Donation) that would allow people to voluntarily and anonymously share information from their fitness trackers that could reveal signs of a COVID-19 infection.The free app will log a person's postcode, age and weight and keep track of any changes in activity and sleep habits, heart rate or even body temperature that could be symptoms of an acute respiratory disease, RKI head Lothar Wieler said at a press conference.The app "would help to better estimate where and how fast COVID-19 is spreading in Germany," Wieler said.But he stressed that the app, developed with e-health company Thryve, could not make a diagnosis or replace a coronavirus test.The RKI will use the combined fitness data to create an online map of Germany where infection rates could be looked up by postcode, Wieler said."This would give scientists data about infection processes and whether the measures we have taken are working," he added.The RKI hopes 10 percent of the roughly 10 million people in Germany with smartwatches or fitness bracelets like Fitbit will join up."But if we could reach 100,000 or even 10,000 people that would be excellent," added the RKI's epidemiological modelling expert Dirk Brockmann.Germany has recorded more than 99,000 cases of the virus and just over 1,600 deaths, a far lower mortality rate than in other European countries.Germany has put it down to early and widespread testing as well as a world-class health system with more critical care beds than many other nations, allowing it to take in dozens of patients from hard-hit Italy, Spain and France.Wieler stressed that it was too soon to relax any of the confinement and social distancing measures that have kept German schools and businesses closed for the past weeks."But I want to stress that we have been very, very successful with our strategy in Germany. We still have enough ventilators, enough intensive care beds." (AFP) PMSPMS

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Matthias Balk/picture alliance via Getty ImagesThe use of on-body or in-home sensors could give healthcare providers and researchers better insight into the coronavirus.<ul class="summary-list"><li>The coronavirus pandemic is entering what could be the most devastating week for the US to date. </li><li>As the outbreak worsens, attention is shifting to gaps in preparedness at all levels - from tepid company responses to missteps by the Trump administration. </li><li>JPMorgan Chase analysts are touting a new response model they refer to as the 'internet of living things' that relies upon large data sets and advanced tech, like artificial intelligence. </li><li>While there are glimmers of many of the Wall Street giant's suggestions already under way, large-scale adoption seems unlikely during this pandemic. </li><li>Follow all of Business Insider's latest updates on the coronavirus <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-virus-everything-we-know-deadly-2019-ncov-wuhan-spread-2020-1">here</a>. </li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/prime?module=article&amp;area=summary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here for more BI Prime stories</a>.</li></ul>The coronavirus pandemic is entering what federal officials say is likely to be <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/06/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-history-health-economy/index.html">the worst week for the outbreak</a> in the US to date. But as the country braces for what could end up being hundreds of thousands of deaths, attention is also on the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-trump-us-botched-coronavirus-pandemic-response-2020-3">gaps in preparedness at all levels</a> that led to the devastating situation both America and the globe are facing right now. There is ample criticism over the Trump administration's approach. But there are also growing signs that corporate America acted too slowly as well. Employees at JPMorgan Chase, for example, expressed outrage <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/anatomy-of-an-outbreak-how-coronavirus-swept-through-jpmorgans-trading-floor-11585946474">to The Wall Street Journal</a> over the Wall Street giant's delay in transitioning to remote work. Inside the bank, its experts are questioning whether the wider use of advanced technology would have been a game-changer. Analysts at JPMorgan said global leaders missed a major opportunity to use the immense amount of stored information within corporations, government agencies, and other sources - along with artificial intelligence and other digital tools - to limit the impact of the coronavirus and shield the global economy from turmoil. "Big data should have been urgently mobilized in the more important tasks of saving lives and protecting economies," analysts Marko Kolanovic and Bram Kaplan wrote in a recent report to investors. "There is no reason why anonymized, aggregate information about onset of disease symptoms could not be available and tracked by artificial intelligence in real time." The process to create what JPMorgan is calling the "internet of living things" is an ambitious checklist - one that seems unlikely to materialize any time soon during the ongoing outbreak. But there are glimmers of much of what JPMorgan is pushing. We unpacked each step below. <h2>A 'daily roll call' </h2>Kolanovic and Kaplan are calling for a daily tally of the population to track who has the virus. It's a method that <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/business/china-coronavirus-surveillance.html">China adopted</a> as it sought to tamp down the outbreak in the country, but an approach that many other countries have yet to mirror. The analysts said it could be achieved through an application on a smartphone or done via text message - like the current emergency alert system. "A minute of time would be a small ask during a pandemic, but would provide likely the most comprehensive real-time picture of illness and its dynamics," they wrote. To encourage participation, Kolanovic and Kaplan suggested that the government make it mandatory or provide some sort of incentive, like health care credits. It's not a totally unrealistic suggestion, especially given that the <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/">vast majority of Americans now have cell phones</a> (although that's <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/02/05/smartphone-ownership-is-growing-rapidly-around-the-world-but-not-always-equally/">not true globally</a>). But there are major hurdles. In the US, for example, such a system would likely require some sort of congressional action. There are also other avenues that governments are pursuing. A <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-nsos-platform-is-helping-countries-track-the-coronavirus-2020-4">new platform from Israeli technology firm NSO Group</a>, for example, would allow officials to combine mobile tracking data with healthcare databases to track individuals confirmed to have the virus, to learn who else may be at risk. And unlike NSO - which doesn't own or have access to the eventual data used to power the software - Google is using its <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/privacy-issues-of-google-covid-19-location-tracker-2020-4">vast trove of data-monitoring sources</a> to track whether individuals are adhering to new social distancing guidelines. <h2>Internet-enabled diagnostic tools</h2>From digitally enabled thermometers to sensors in an individual's house that could remotely monitor body temperatures, new internet-powered diagnostic tools could be a game-changer in pandemic preparedness. "The internet of living things could be an ongoing system with its own economics, or it could be an emergency response system activated as a response to an epidemic," wrote Kolanovic and Kaplan. The more obvious systems - like smartwatches from Apple, FitBit, and others - could play a role in helping to mitigate the spread of the virus, but <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2020/04/03/wearables-like-apple-watch-fitbit-may-play-coronavirus-detection-role/5111959002/">largely lack the more sophisticated tech</a> that would make reliance more ubiquitous. Other platforms could monitor heart rates and automatically call an ambulance if a patient may be at risk for heart attack or stroke. Such applications will likely become even more critical in the future, as this outbreak <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/list-telemedicine-startups-put-to-the-test-by-the-coronavirus-2020-3">accelerates the adoption of telemedicine</a>. <h2>War rooms and open-source databases </h2>A combination of private and public sector efforts would give tech and healthcare experts access to immense databases that could be analyzed to not only mitigate the spread of a virus, but also to help contain the economic fallout, argued Kolanovic and Kaplan. "Once the data are processed, these war rooms of data scientists and health professionals would coordinate the response with appropriate authorities," the authors wrote. Similar to that, Kolanovic and Kaplan are also calling for the creation of a central website to allow researchers across the globe to access all relevant data sets in real time. In the example of a malaria drug that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/malaria-pill-chloroquine-tested-as-coronavirus-treatment-2020-3">President Donald Trump and others</a> have touted as a potential treatment (despite <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-treatment-how-to-enroll-in-hydroxychloroquine-study-2020-3">the lack of scientific evidence</a>), the authors said that combining the various studies out there on it could allow scientists to use "a machine learning/AI-driven model that could combine the different datasets to produce a probability model for success of this drug." Alongside the healthcare efforts, the authors also encouraged the sharing of data sets to enable 3D printers to produce in-demand items like ventilators or masks. Such <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/health/coronavirus-vaccine.html">coordination is already occurring</a> on a small scale. The White House, for example, is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/white-house-is-using-coronavirus-model-for-decisions-2020-3">relying on statistics</a> from the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation to help guide its response. The University of Pittsburgh also <a href="https://inside.upmc.com/pitt-turns-rapid-coronavirus-data-sharing-into-sustainable-research-infrastructure/">quickly created an online database</a> to help guide research efforts. And Cisco is making its data on 3D-printed face shields available across the globe. <h2>AI assessments to determine who can re-enter the economy </h2>Using many of the aforementioned tools - like at-home sensors and tracking data - artificial intelligence can be used to figure out when (or if) a specific individual is deemed safe enough to venture back out into regular society. Such a system could "reduce risk for the individual, for others, and could optimize re-starting [the] economy case by case, in different geographic regions and stages of pandemic," wrote Kolanovic and Kaplan. But all these steps would likely <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/technology/coronavirus-surveillance-tracking-privacy.html">further ignite privacy fears</a>, given it would require the widespread sharing of information that some may deem personal. To be sure, the authors called for great care to "ensure data is protected, anonymized and used only in aggregate, to prevent personal data from being stolen or manipulated by a malicious actor."<a href="https://store.businessinsider.com/products/banking-briefing-subscription?itm_source=businessinsider&amp;itm_medium=ctgr_bii&amp;itm_term=ctgr_subscription&amp;itm_content=wallstreet&amp;itm_campaign=banking-briefing-subscription-2"></a> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-myths-debunked-wuhan-china-2020-2">Pathologists debunk 13 coronavirus myths</a></h3>

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