Sonica Health Develops Wearable For Early Warning Of COVID-19

The US government is helping Sonica develop ADAM, a patch monitor that tracks the user's breathing patterns and other physiologic signals to detect SARS-CoV-2 infections.

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The US government’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has awarded Sonica Health more than $650,000 to help develop a wearable device that can detect SARS-CoV-2 infection, especially in high-risk individuals, before the user has noticeable symptoms of COVID-19, the agency announced on 1 July.

Sonica is a spinout of Northwestern University’s Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics in Evanston, IL. Led by John Rogers, a professor or materials science and engineering at Northwestern, the start-up...

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