The NBA has announced that its players will have the option to wear the Oura Ring fitness monitor when the season resumes in Orlando next month. The Oura wearable tech has been marketed as “capable of predicting COVID-19 symptoms up to 3 days in advance (90% accuracy).”
Whoa, that seems like a pretty cool feature, right?! To quote the inimitable Lee Corso, not so fast, my friend!
If we take a deeper look the definition of COVID-19 “symptoms” is squishy enough it becomes nearly meaningless. Like any fitness tracker, the Oura tracks a range of biometrics (e.