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Oura’s experimenting with a feature to detect early changes in your health

The experimental feature gives you a heads-up when it detects strain.

Symptom Radar isn’t quite illness detection — a feature that Oura and many other wearables companies put a lot of research into during the early days of the covid-19 pandemic. While illness could potentially trigger an alert, so could many other factors, like a rough workout or several nights of poor rest. In a bid to drum up excitement for large-scale illness monitoring, the company released a study last year that found covid-19 symptoms impacted biometrics weeks after infection.

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