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Tesla shares are up over 50% since the split announcement on Aug 11, 2020.The question is, should you get in on Tesla now? Has the good news already been priced in the stock and will if fall after the split?
Tesla (TSLA) gets a 71% increase from Wedbush Securities “With the China growth story, Tesla could now have $35+ of earnings power by 2025/2026 vs. our prior estimate of $20-$25,” Ives also said. Tesla Model 3 will produce higher margins than the same vehicle in the U.S. and European markets.
You don’t get any investment value advantage buying shares after or before or after a stock split. When shares have become expensive, an investor may be more at ease purchasing shares at lower cost shares post- split. There is a high demand for EV and going forward there will be a high penetration of these vehicles into the market.
We can’t say what will surprise us next about Elon Musk and Tesla, but usually whatever news comes out about Elon Musk’s visions is usually groundbreaking and has already been priced into the stock. Tesla is certainly a company that is on the forefront of new technologies, both on the ground and up in space.
On other news- Tesla’s Battery Day is a highly anticipated event. Teslas’s pilot battery production line is on its way to being finished and prepared for production. Make sure to watch CEO Elon Musk on Twitter as the Tesla’s Plaid Model S, and the Plaid Model X, may be debuted at Battery Day.
A majority of economists say Congress should reinstate supplemental unemployment insurance benefits as the U.S. economy isn’t likely to emerge from the recession until later this year or at some point next year, according to a survey by the National Association for Business Economics. Most of them also support extending the Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses. Two-thirds of the respondents said the economy is still in the recession that began in February and almost 80% indicated that there is at least a 25% chance of a double-dip recession.
Some of the investors in ByteDance (BDNCE), including investment firm General Atlantic, want to take large stakes in TikTok’s North America, Australia, and New Zealand operations while Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) or Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), which are also vying to buy the units, would get a minority stake under the plan. The news comes after reports that TikTok is preparing to legally challenge President Trump’s executive order banning transactions between the popular short-form video app and parent ByteDance. The assets for sale may be valued $25 Billion – $35 Billion, sources told Reuters. The ByteDance investors are discussing exchanging some or all of their shares in ByteDance with equity in the TikTok assets, they said.
Like most kids, I collected baseballs cards growing up. Once my older brother received his driver’s license, we drove and traveled all over Southern California attending baseball card conventions, wheeling & dealing with other vendors and collectors.
Our Dad encouraged our hobby so much he gave us suggestions that turned our love of baseball & card collecting from a hobby into a business. We also started collecting baseball memorabilia, autographs on baseball cards & index cards, photographs, and official MLB Rawlings baseballs. I even got to a point where I was collecting authentic MLB game-used baseball bats that I acquired from trading baseball cards from my personal collection.
My brother & I were on a mission and got to a point where we had over one million baseball cards. Our specialty was complete sets of every card printed each year and also rookie cards. Our father taught us to compare rookie cards as if they were stocks on the New York Stock Exchange and the better the players perform as they get older, the higher the cards will likely increase in value.
Well, our Dad was right. My brother & I were considered “the rookie card kings” within the baseball card industry and we had other vendors & collectors from all over the United States purchasing cards from us.
Even though we were both still teenagers, we knew what we were doing, and my brother counted on me to find and choose the next great young future baseball players to invest in their rookie cards.
Our business venture grew so rapidly we opened and started the very first baseball card shop in our area, while my brother was in College, and I was in still High School.
Once, we even talked Darryl Strawberry to come into our store, when he was just a rookie playing for the New York Mets in 1983 to sign autographs on a Saturday morning & afternoon, before the Mets were to play the Los Angeles Dodgers at nighttime.
Darryl Strawberry was so impressed with what we were doing and appreciated how much we believed in his ability because we had 100’s of his rookie baseball cards.Strawberry was such a class act, all he asked from us in exchange for his time to come into our shop to sign autographs for our customers, was some of his very own rookie baseball cards to keep for himself.
The most intriguing part of this story is, my brother & I got into trying to get other MLB players to autograph their own cards for us, but it actually decreased the value of the baseball cards itself. Old school baseball collectors advised us not to do that because they felt it’d diminish the value and the cards would no longer be considered an authentic gem mint condition baseball card.
Well, all those people sure were wrong because little did we know, way back then, my brother & I were onto something so big we could have been baseball card millionaires one day.
That day might of been today because Los Angeles Angels Mike Trout made history as one of his rookie baseball cards just broke the record for the most money ever paid for a baseball card because that card was actually autographed by Trout in 2009 before he was even a rookie while playing minor league baseball.
Astonishingly, a rare signed Trout rookie card sold for more than $3.9 million on Saturday night, breaking the record of $3.12 million set by the famous T206 Honus Wagner card in 2016. The Trout card, released by Bowman in 2009, was graded in Mint 9 condition and features a stamped “1/1” serial number to ensure its singular quality. The card was originally put on the auction block in July with a minimum bid of $1 million.
Sports betting consultant “Vegas Dave” Oancea bought the Trout card two years ago on eBay for $400,000 — back when Trout was merely a two-time American League MVP Award winner. Trout won the honor again in ’19 while hitting a career-high 45 home runs, and he entered Sunday tied for the AL lead with 10 dingers. Like the card that bears his likeness, Trout only continues to get more valuable. Because he’s now considered the best baseball player on the planet.
“A lot of people had a lot of negative things to say, that I was crazy, you know,” Oancea told Reuters earlier this month. “”You could have bought a house’, ‘You could have bought this and that’, that I’m stupid and it’s a piece of cardboard. But it’s ironic, now I’m going to make four or five million dollars.”
Trout has accumulated 73.5 WAR per Baseball-Reference as he continues his 10th season in the big leagues — a total that tops dozens of position players already enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
The $3.9 million Trout card was sold in an auction to an unidentified person. If only my brother & I stuck to our instincts way back then, because there’s a very good chance we’d have some more of those autographed Mike Trout cards of our own.
This article was originally published on August 24th, 2020.
Smith & Wesson Brands (NASDAQ:SWBI) will separate into a firearms business and an outdoor products and accessories business called American Outdoor Brands (AOUT) on August 24.
American Outdoor Brands has about 1,988 employees, and of those 1,484 are in manufacturing.
Smith & Wesson Brands stockholders will receive one share of American Outdoor Brands common stock for every four shares held as of August 10. Following the spin-off, American Outdoor Brands will be a separate publicly-traded company independent from Smith & Wesson Brands.
The split arrives with demand for firearms in an uptrend and outdoors products also seeing strong demand as consumers opt for RV/camping vacations at a record rate.
The company has three gun factories: the 575,000-square-foot facility in Springfield, the 150,000-square-foot facility in Connecticut, and a 38,000-square-foot facility in Houlton, Maine.
Planning for hurricane season and other potential disasters can be stressful, and because the 2020 hurricane season comes during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, it may be especially so.
Public health and emergency response professionals have advice to help you safely prepare, evacuate, and shelter for severe storms while protecting yourself and others from COVID-19. Here are some tips to help you and your family stay safe during hurricane season this year.
Prepare for hurricane season
Understand that your planning may be different this year because of the need to protect yourself and others from COVID-19.
Protect yourself and others when filling prescriptions by limiting in-person visits to the pharmacy. Sign up for mail order delivery or call in your prescription ahead of time and use drive-through windows or curbside pickup, if available.
Pay attention to local guidance about updated plans for evacuations and shelters, including shelters for your pets.
When you check on neighbors and friends, be sure to follow social distancing recommendations (staying at least 6 feet from others) and other CDC recommendations to protect yourself and others.
Prepare to evacuate
If you may need to evacuate, prepare a “go kit” with personal items you cannot do without during an emergency. Include items that can help protect you and others from COVID-19, such as hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol, bar or liquid soap, disinfectant wipes (if available) and two masks for each person. Masks should not be used by children under the age of 2. They also should not be used by people having trouble breathing, or who are unconscious, incapacitated, or unable to remove the mask without assistance.
Find out if your local public shelter is open, in case you need to evacuate your home and go there. Your shelter location may be different this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
If you need to go to a disaster shelter, follow CDC recommendations for staying safe and healthy in a public disaster shelter during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Follow guidance from your local public health or emergency management officials on when and where to shelter.
If you will be staying with friends or family outside your household to evacuate from the storm:
Talk to the people you plan to stay with about how you can all best protect yourselves from COVID-19.
Consider if either of your households has someone who is at higher risk of developing severe illness from COVID-19, including older adults or people of any age who have underlying medical conditions. Make sure everyone knows what they can do to keep them safe from COVID-19.
Know what to do if someone in your family or in the household you are staying with becomes sick with COVID-19. Take steps to keep your pets safe.
Stay safe after a hurricane -In addition to following guidance for staying safe and healthy after a hurricane, note that:
You should continue to follow preventive actions to protect yourself and others from COVID-19, like washing your hands and wearing a mask during cleanup or when returning home.
If you are injured or ill, contact your medical provider for treatment recommendations. Keep wounds clean to prevent infection. Remember, accessing medical care may be more difficult than usual during the pandemic.
Dealing with disasters can cause stress and strong emotions, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is natural to feel anxiety, grief, and worry. Coping with these feelings and getting help when you need it will help you, your family, and your community recover.
After a hurricane, it’s not unusual for rats, mice, and other pests to try to get into your home or building. Be aware that with restaurant and commercial closures related to COVID-19, there are already reports of increased rodent activity as they try to seek other sources of food. Follow recommendations for keeping pests out of your home.
First it was Microsoft, now it’s Oracle, and now Alphabet Google may be in the game to purchase a share of TikTok. Apple had said that it was interested in buying Tik Tok but has no interest the Chinese app as of now. TikTok is owned by the Chinese company by ByteDance.
President Trump has been trying to ban the social media app in the US due to the Chinese stealing our data. Trump felt it was one of the options to punish China for sending the Coronavirus to the United States. Amazon even told employees to delete the app because of security risks but they later changed their minds and stated that was an error.
As reported by The Street, CNN reported an email sent to the DNC security team that read,” We continue to advise campaign staff to refrain from using TikTok on personal devices. If you are using TikTok for campaign work, we recommend using a separate phone and account.” Source the Street.com
New York University had teamed up with Facebook to dramatically reduce the time to capture magnetic resonance images. This is a breakthrough in medical imaging. This groundbreaking technology is definitely helpful for children that have to sit through a long period of time in order to get an MRI. It will make the experience to feel less invasive.
In other news
To accomplish a task like checking to see whether you locked the front door or retrieving a cell phone that’s ringing in an upstairs bedroom, AI assistants of the future must learn to plan their route, navigate effectively, look around their physical environment, listen to what’s happening around them, and build memories of the 3D space. These smarter assistants will require new advances in embodied AI, which seeks to teach machines to understand and interact with the complexities of the physical world as people do.
Today, we’re announcing several new milestones that introduce important capabilities to push the limits of embodied agents even further. This foundational research introduces state-of-the-art embodied agents that learn how to explore and understand more complex, realistic spaces from egocentric views or multimodal signals.
The first audio-visual platform for embodied AI.
With this new platform, researchers can train AI agents in 3D environments with highly realistic acoustics. This opens up an array of new embodied AI tasks, such as navigating to a sound-emitting target, learning from echolocation, or exploring with multimodal sensors. Adding sound not only yields faster training and more accurate navigation at inference, but also enables the agent to discover the goal on its own from afar. To facilitate future work in this new direction, we collaborated with Facebook Reality Labs to release. In other news release source; Facebook
You can read in depth publications about Facebooks technologies here at Facebook AI.
Second Quarter 2020 Operational and Other Financial Highlights
Facebook monthly active users (MAUs) — MAUs were 2.70 billion as of June 30, 2020, an increase of 12% year-over-year.
Family daily active people (DAP) — DAP was 2.47 billion on average for June 2020, an increase of 15% year-over-year.
Family monthly active people (MAP) — MAP was 3.14 billion as of June 30, 2020, an increase of 14%-year over-year.
Capital expenditures — Capital expenditures, including principal payments on finance leases, were $3.36 billion for the second quarter of 2020.
Cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities — Cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities were $58.24 billion as of June 30, 2020. On July 7, 2020, we paid approximately $5.8 billion at the then current exchange rate for our investment in Jio Platforms Limited.
Headcount — Headcount was 52,534 as of June 30, 2020, an increase of 32% year-over-year
The risk of getting sick with COVID-19 from eating or handling food (including frozen food and produce) and food packages is considered very low.
Take everyday actions to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Continue following basic steps for food safety and eat nutritious foods to take care of your physical and mental health.
Currently, there is no evidence to suggest that handling food or consuming food is associated with COVID-19.
Coronaviruses, like the one that causes COVID-19, are thought to spread mostly person-to-person through respiratory droplets when someone coughs, sneezes, or talks. It is possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object, including food or food packaging, that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes. However, this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.
After shopping, handling food packages, or before preparing or eating food, it is important to always wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. If soap and water are not available, use a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol. Cover all surfaces of your hands and rub them together until they feel dry. Remember, it is always important to follow good food safety practices to reduce the risk of illness from common foodborne pathogens.
Very low risk of getting COVID-19 from food and packaging or treated drinking water
The risk of getting COVID-19 from food you cook yourself or from handling and consuming food from restaurants and takeout or drive-thru meals is thought to be very low. Currently, there is no evidence that food is associated with spreading the virus that causes COVID-19.
The risk of infection by the virus from food products, food packaging, or bags is thought to be very low. Currently, no cases of COVID-19 have been identified where infection was thought to have occurred by touching food, food packaging, or shopping bags.
Although some people who work in food production and processing facilities have gotten COVID-19, there is no evidence of the virus spreading to consumers through the food or packaging that workers in these facilities may have handled.
Food safety in the kitchen
Use proper food safety practices when handling food and before, during and after preparing or eating food.
Currently, there is no evidence that the virus that causes COVID-19 spreads to people through food. However, it is important to safely handle and continue to cook foods to their recommended cooking temperaturesexternal icon to prevent foodborne illness.
The virus that causes COVID-19 has not been found in drinking water. The Environmental Protection Agency regulates water treatment plants to ensure that treated water is safe to drink.
Clean surfaces
Regularly clean and disinfect kitchen counters using a commercially available disinfectant productexternal icon or a DIY disinfecting solution with 5 tablespoons (1/3rd cup) unscented liquid chlorine bleach to 1 gallon of water or 4 teaspoons of bleach per quart of water. Leave solution on the surface for at least 1 minute. Before preparing food on the kitchen counter, rinse disinfected surface with water. WARNING: Do not use this solution or other disinfecting products on food or food packaging.Learn moreexternal icon about shopping for food during the COVID-19 pandemic.
If someone in your home is sick, clean and disinfect “high-touch” surfaces daily such as handles, kitchen countertops, faucets, light switches, and doorknobs.
Everyday handling of packaged food and fresh produce
The risk of infection by the virus from food products, food packaging, or bags is thought to be very low. Currently, no cases of COVID-19 have been identified where infection was thought to have occurred by touching food, food packaging, or shopping bags. It is always important to follow good food safety practices to reduce the risk of illness from common foodborne pathogens.
Handling packaged food
When unpacking groceries, refrigerate or freeze meat, poultry, eggs, seafood, and other perishables within 2 hours of purchasing.
Do NOT use disinfectants designed for hard surfaces, such as bleach or ammonia, on food packaged in cardboard or plastic wrap.
If reusable cloth bags become soiled, follow instructions for washing them, and dry them on the warmest appropriate setting.
Handling and cleaning fresh produce
Do NOT wash produce with soap, bleach, sanitizer, alcohol, disinfectant or any other chemical.
Gently rinse fresh fruits and vegetables under cold, running tap water.
Scrub uncut firm produce (e.g., potatoes, cucumbers, melons) with a clean brush, even if you don’t plan to eat the peel.
Salt, pepper, vinegar, lemon juice, and lime juice have not been shown to be effective at removing germs on produce.
Bulk meat, poultry, and seafood purchasing and handling
In response to changes in the food supply chain, some meat and poultry manufacturers, restaurants, and restaurant suppliers have begun selling large amounts of meat, poultry, and seafood directly to consumers. While there is currently no evidence that food can spread the virus that causes COVID-19, there are other important considerations for bulk purchasing.
Harmful bacteria grow fastest between 41 °F and 140 °F. If you are picking up a meat, poultry or seafood order, bring a cooler and ice packs to keep food at 41 °F or colder during transit.
Never allow meat, poultry or seafood that requires refrigeration to sit at room temperature for more than two hours. Never allow meat, poultry, or seafood that requires refrigeration to sit at room temperature for more than one hour if the air temperature is above 90 °F.
Once you arrive home, meat, poultry and seafood items should either be prepared immediately or put in the refrigerator or freezer for safe storage.
In case of leaks in the packaging, bring a secondary container or place cases of meat, poultry, or seafood in an area of your vehicle that can be easily clean and sanitized. If leaks occur, thoroughly wash the surface with hot, soapy water or a bleach solution after it comes in contact with raw meat, poultry or seafood, or its juices.
Currently, there is no evidence that you can get infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 by eating food, including wild hunted game meat. However, hunters can get infected with other diseases when processing or eating game. Hunters should always practice good hygiene when processing animals by following these food safety recommendations:
Do not harvest animals that appear sick or are found dead.
Keep game meat clean and cool the meat down as soon as possible after harvesting the animal.
Avoid cutting through the backbone and spinal tissues and do not eat the brains of any wild animal.
When handling and cleaning game:
Wear rubber or disposable gloves.
Do not eat, drink, or smoke.
When finished handling and cleaning game:
Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water.
Clean knives, equipment, and surfaces that were in contact with game meat with soap and water and then you may choose to disinfect further. While these recommendations apply to general food safety practices, if you are concerned about COVID-19, you may use a product on the EPA list of disinfectantsexternal icon for use against the COVID-19 virus.
Raw wild meat or uncooked dishes containing the blood of wild animals should not be eaten, as such practices place people at high risk of contracting many types of infections.
Check with your state wildlife agency regarding any testing requirements for other diseases and for any specific instructions regarding preparing, transporting, and consuming game meat.
To help cope with stress that may be related to the pandemic, take care of your body including good nutrition, as part of self-care.
Dietary supplements aren’t meant to treat or prevent COVID-19. Certain vitamins and mineralsexternal icon (e.g., Vitamins C and D, zinc) may have effects on how our immune system works to fight off infections, as well as inflammation and swelling.
The best way to obtain these nutrients is through foods: Vitamin Cexternal icon in fruits and vegetables, Vitamin Dexternal icon in low-fat milk, fortified milk alternatives, and seafood, and zincexternal icon in lean meat, seafood, legumes, nuts, and seeds.
In some cases, dietary supplementsexternal icon may have unwanted effects, especially if taken in too large amounts, before surgery, or with other dietary supplements or medicines, or if you have certain health conditions.
If you are considering taking vitamins or dietary supplements, talk with your pharmacist, registered dietitian, or other healthcare provider before taking, especially when combining or substituting them with other foods or medicine.
Getting the right amount of nutritious food like plenty of fruits and vegetables, lean protein, and whole grains is important for health. If you or your household need help in obtaining nutritious food, find additional resources at USDA Nutrition Assistance Programexternal icon, or call the USDA National Hunger Hotline at 1-866-3-HUNGRY or 1-877-8-HAMBRE to speak with a representative who will find food resources such as meal sites, food banks, and other social services available near your location.
The difficulty many people have getting tested for SARS-CoV-2 and delays in receiving test results make early warning of possible COVID-19 infections all the more important, and data from wearable health and fitness devices shows promise for identifying who might have COVID-19.
Today’s wearable device gather data about physical activity, heart rate, body temperature and quality of sleep. This data is typically used to help people track general well-being. Smartwatches are the most common type of wearable. There are also smart wrist bands, finger rings and earbuds. Smart clothing, shoes and eyeglasses can also be considered “wearables.” Popular brands include Fitbits, Apple Watches and Garmin watches.
Several studies are testing algorithms that assess data from wearable devices to detect COVID-19. Results to date show that the concept is sound. However, wearables can be expensive and sometimes challenging to use. Addressing these issues is important to allow as many people as possible to benefit from them.
Detecting flu-like illness
Because wearables are excellent tools for monitoring general health conditions, researchers began studying ways of using them to detect illness before the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, researchers used Fitbit data to identify people who could have an influenza-like illness from their resting heart rate and daily activity patterns. An elevated resting heart rate can be related to an infection.
Fitness trackers like this Fitbit monitor heart rate, activity and quality of sleep. Elevated resting heart rate is a sign of infection. Krystal Peterson/Flickr
Most Fitbit models measure and record heart rate, so the devices can be used to spot periods of increased resting heart rate. They also measure and record activity, so they can identify reduced levels of daily activity. Combining these two measures allowed the researchers to better predict who had an influenza-like illness.
It’s not possible to determine if a smart device wearer has a particular illness from just these data measures. But seeing a sudden change in these conditions can prompt people to isolate themselves and get diagnostic tests, which can reduce the spread of communicable diseases like COVID-19.
Body temperature
Fever and persistent cough are the most common symptoms of COVID-19. This has sparked widespread screening using thermometers, most commonly contactless infrared thermometers.
Despite the ubiquity of thermometers, temperature sensors in wearables are uncommon. This is due in part to how complicated it is to obtain true body temperature from skin-based measurements. Skin temperature varies depending on environmental conditions and stress levels, sweat evaporation can lower skin temperature, and temperature sensors sometimes have less-than-ideal contact with the skin.
There are wearable temperature patches that communicate with smart devices and record temperature continuously. But body temperature isn’t 100% predictive of illness, and it’s impossible to diagnose a particular infection, such as COVID-19, using body temperature alone. Nonetheless, a fever alert could lead to earlier intervention.
Sweat and tears
Research into sensing technology continues to expand the possibilities for wearables as health monitoring and diagnosis devices. The COVID-19 outbreak is likely to influence the direction of this research as well as accelerate it.
The backside of this Garmin smartwatch shows the sensors that use light to illuminate blood vessels in order to measure heart rate. Tina Arnold/Flickr
One approach is to create sensors that detect compounds in sweat from the skin. These compounds can provide a lot of information about a person’s health. pH, sodium ions, glucose and alcohol content are just some of the things that emerging sweat sensors can detect. Tears also contain compounds from the body, so researchers are investigating chemical sensing using contact lenses and smart lenses.
Sweat rate can also be measured, which can be used as an indicator of temperature, so these sensors are being examined for use in helping detect COVID-19.
Toward detecting viruses
The drawback of many existing wearable sensors is that they can’t actually detect the presence of a virus such at SARS-CoV-2. To do this, they would have to detect virus-specific RNA.
RNA detection typically involves several steps, including extracting RNA from a sample, making many copies of the RNA and identifying the RNA. Although there has been a lot of progress in miniaturizing RNA detection equipment for use in rapid, point-of-care testing, there’s still a ways to go before it can fit in wearable devices.
Much of the ongoing research on developing rapid, point-of-care pathogen detection uses “lab-on-a-chip” technology. Lab-on-a-chip refers to the goal of shrinking laboratory tests that once required many large pieces of equipment to the size of a computer chip or microscope slide.
An example is a COVID-19 diagnostic test undergoing clinical trials. The test’s sensor is a specialized ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET) that is designed to respond to the presence of the virus RNA. The device can perform a test in less than one hour, but requires a sample collected by nasal swab.
While this technology is not wearable, it could become the launching point for future virus-detecting wearables because these can be made small and use little power. A wearable device that continuously monitors a person and indicates that they’ve contracted or been exposed to the virus would allow the person to seek treatment and isolate themselves to prevent further spread.
Sonic screwdrivers and tricorders
Fans of Dr. Who know the sonic screwdriver, and Star Trek followers know the tricorder. The ideal wearable of the future would be similar to these wondrous fictional devices. It would be able to detect the presence of the virus in the environment around the wearer, providing the opportunity to leave before becoming exposed.
But airborne virus detection requires significant equipment to collect air samples and analyze them. Other methods, such as the plasmonic photothermal biosensor, provide promising results, but still require the user to perform the analysis. It will be some time before a smartwatch will be able to alert its wearer to the presence of a dangerous virus.
Wearable and accessible
For all the promise of wearables as tools to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, and future pandemics, there are barriers to widespread use of the devices. Most wearables are expensive, can be difficult to learn to use by non-native English speakers, or are developed without data from a broad population base. There’s a risk that many people won’t accept the technology.
Continued development of broadly accepted health-based wearables should include community input, as outlined in a National Academies Workshop Summary. By ensuring that everyone has access to wearables, and accepts them, the devices can help keep people healthy in the midst of a global pandemic. Ongoing research should result in improved technology that, with care, will benefit all of society.
Albert H. Titus, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.
