Researchers Use WHOOP to Track COVID-19 Recovery Process

Published: May 6, 2020, 1 a.m.

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WHOOP data continues to be used by doctors and researchers as they try and learn more about coronavirus. The Duke University COVID-19 Research Taskforce is putting WHOOP straps on coronavirus patients to track how they are recovering from the disease, both in the hospital and after they are discharged.\\xa0 Lead Clinical Medical Physiologist Dr. Jeroen Molinger discusses his coronavirus research (3:27), the ICU experience (5:10), creating survivors and not victims (8:14), buying time with ventilators (8:56), what researchers are hoping to learn about BMI\\u2019s role in coronavirus outcomes (9:19), why heart rate variability could be a good predictor of post-COVID immune response (10:42), study goals (14:53), why we still don\\u2019t know enough about asymptomatic cases (19:57), the importance of tracking HRV (23:10), COVID\\u2019s effect on sleep (24:29), and what he\\u2019s learned from his WHOOP data while working during the pandemic (25:51).

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