Dr. Bob Stout, a physician at Yale New Haven Hospital, wears a Fresh Air Clip designed by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health. Yale researchers developed the wearable device to detect the virus that causes COVID-19. Its potential could help workers in high-risk settings, such as restaurants or healthcare facilities, know when they are at risk.
The researchers had 62 test subjects wear the clip between January and May 2021. Some wore the clip when working in restaurants, homeless shelters and health care facilities, while others wore them during daily activities such as shopping and exercising. Researchers found evidence of COVID in five clips – four worn by restaurant workers, one by a person working in a homeless shelter – and detected levels of the virus below the amount that infects someone.
Researchers are using the Fresh Air Clips in additional studies at health care facilities in Connecticut and hope to make them available to members of public in the future.
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