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Oura’s smart rings can now tell when you’re getting sick


Symptom Radar flags when you’re showing signs of respiratory illness.

Technically, Symptom Radar isn’t diagnostic in nature — though its development does have roots in Oura’s illness prediction research during the pandemic. Even so, Patel acknowledged that the algorithm isn’t 100 percent accurate and that false positives and negatives were possible; Oura didn’t provide specific accuracy data. Given that, Patel says the official version of Symptom Radar will now include a historical graph so that people can see how their health is trending over time.

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