Inside Fitbit’s Plan to Detect Covid Symptoms With a New Wearable

We talked to the team behind the new Fitbit Sense, a $329 smartwatch dedicated to tracking your health

David Pogue
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Published in
10 min readAug 25, 2020

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Graphic illustration of a person wearing a Fitbit watch that has a holographic covid coming out of it.
Illustration: Sandro Rybak

The main reason the coronavirus has shut down society isn’t that it’s deadly; it’s that it’s invisible. If you could see the damn particles — as a neon-yellow cloud on someone’s…

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