NASA will provide its 1,000 employees, including 150 astronauts with Fitbit devices in the pilot program, to see if they can help complement efforts to keep these space-critical crews healthy before space missions. The program wearable for NASA staff and will provide access to a daily check-in application that they can use to log potential symptoms, as well as their body temperature and other important health metrics, which can clearly help spot development.
NASA has already taken steps to isolate astronauts and restrict or prevent the spread of COVID-19 across its facilities across the United States. Based systems and implemented remote work protocols for as many employees as possible wherever possible. On behalf of the astronaut side, it has already created existing isolation and sequestration methods to guarantee that its spaceships are prepared before they embark on the International Space Station without getting sick.
The new FBIT program designed to complement those existing measures, providing health metrics tracking changes in heart rate and heart rate variability, as well as changes in respiratory rate, all of which are associated with COVID-19. These statistics, along with self-reported metrics logged by users themselves, with a report of possible symptoms, will help guide people in the program whether they should do their job, or stay at home, and take extra, will help them COVID-19 Measures to find out if there is.
Fitbit is already involved in the study to determine if its wearable device and the metrics they have logged on can be effective in providing early COVID-19 detection. Regardless of these results, the application that Baseline Health Metrics has logged from its device, in addition to self-reporting, already seems to be able to provide others with a complement to existing self-assessment systems related to the level of risk involved the primary purpose.
