Wearables Could Improve Flu Forecasting, but They Miss the Most Vulnerable

Flu cases can be predicted from heart rate and sleep information

Emily Mullin
OneZero
Published in
5 min readJan 17, 2020

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A close up of a person checking a wearable fitness tracker on their wrist.
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InIn 2017, a group of Stanford researchers found that wearable devices for tracking exercise could also tell when you’re getting sick based on abnormal measures of heart rate, skin temperature, and other biometrics.

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Emily Mullin
OneZero

Former staff writer at Medium, where I covered biotech, genetics, and Covid-19 for OneZero, Future Human, Elemental, and the Coronavirus Blog.