Army looking for wearable early COVID-19 detector

The U.S. Army is looking for partners to develop a wearable unit to detect early signs of coronavirus infections.

The Army on Monday asked for proposals to develop "a wearable diagnostic capability for the pre‐/very early‐symptomatic detection of COVID‐19 infection."

"Physiologic surveillance for COVID‐19 positive individuals that do not yet show clear medical symptoms is an ultimate goal," its solicitation says. "Physiological signatures therefore must produce predictive algorithms that can be tied into validated and relevant antibody/molecular measurements."