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Oura is rolling out its sickness detection feature to Ring Gen 3 and Ring 4 users

Oura is moving a respiratory sickness detection feature out of beta. Ring Gen 3 and Ring 4 wearers with an active subscription should have access by December 9.

It now has a history graph showing wellness trends and whether the daily Symptom Radar result has been recorded (this should happen when a ring syncs with the Oura app each morning). That led into the creation of Oura's health management platform and then to a refined algorithm "based on a vastly increased data set, inclusive of millions of tags, that has significantly up-leveled accuracy to produce the new Symptom Radar feature." After all, Shyamal Patel, Oura’s head of science, told The Verge that the algorithm isn't 100 percent accurate, and as such false positive and negative readings are possible.

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