The Scripps Research Translational Institute recently launched an app-based research program called DETECT that can analyze wearable health data – such as activity levels, heart rate and sleep – to more quickly detect viral illnesses caused by coronavirus, influenza or other infectious diseases.

The Stanford Healthcare Innovation lab, meanwhile, recently launched its own COVID-19 wearables study, which is exploring how data collected from wearables – like heart rate, skin temperature and blood oxygen saturation – can be used to predict the onset of an infectious disease before symptoms start