Tag: medicine
Apple’s COVID-19 screening tool can anonymously share symptoms with the CDC
Apple’s COVID-19 screening tool now helps you contribute to the public good in addition to providing personalized advice. TechCrunch notes that Apple has updated both its iOS app and website with anonymous symptom and health info sharing with the CDC… Source
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Twitter clumsily fact-checks ‘5G corona’ tweets
Twitter is getting more aggressive with the use its fact-checking label — it might even be hard to avoid the label in some cases. Business Insider and others have noticed that Twitter is displaying a “get the facts on COVID-19” link underneath seemin… Source
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Amazon workers sue over alleged failure to follow COVID-19 guidelines (updated)
Amazon is facing more scrutiny over its handling of COVID-19 at its warehouses. Workers at the internet retailer’s Staten Island warehouse have filed a lawsuit (via CNBC) accusing the company of failing to follow CDC and New York state public health… Source
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Fitbit gains FDA authorization for its low-cost emergency ventilator
Fitbit has secured an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Fitbit Flow emergency ventilator. The ventilator hardware is low-cost, and doesn’t require very much training or expertise to use, making it a good solution for deployment in scenarios where healthcare systems are…
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Fitbit’s COVID-19 ventilator gets emergency FDA approval
Fitbit is one step closer to putting its Flow ventilator into use during the pandemic. The FDA has given Fitbit an Emergency Use Authorization for the Flow to help with severe COVID-19 cases. It still doesn’t have customers lined up, but it’s “in tal… Source
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Italy’s ‘Immuni’ COVID-19 contact tracing app uses Google, Apple tech
Italy has released its official COVID-19 contact-tracing app, which is built on the framework developed by Apple and Google to track infections. Four regions — Liguria, Abruzzo, Marche and Puglia — will start piloting Immuni (Italian for "immune")… Source
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