Hello, folks. Welcome to the WOOP podcast. I'm your host, Will Ahmed, the founder and CEO of Woop,

and we are on a mission to unlock human performance. We build technology across hardware and

software and analytics that's designed to continuously understand the human

body. We measure things like heart rate and respiratory rate and heart rate variability and

capacitive touch and movement. We provide all that information on a dashboard that's going to

tell you things like how well you slept, how fast you're recovering, what kind of strain you're putting on

your bodies, which hopefully right now hasn't fallen off too much in this time of COVID.

And in addition, we're doing a lot of research right now around COVID-19.

You can listen to some of our previous episodes about how respiratory rate may be a key

indicator for whether or not someone has COVID-19.

And if you have never joined whoop or you're not a member, you can get 15% off a W-W-M-M-R-Manship

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Our guest this week is Jerome Mollinger from the Duke University Medical Center COVID-19 Research Task Force.

Yes, that is a very important task force.

And Woop has partnered with Duke to study the recovery aspect of COVID-19. What does that mean? It means when a patient who has

gotten COVID-19 actually leaves the hospital, what happens to their health, what happens to

their recovery, what happens to, in particular their heart rate variability, which we touch

upon a lot. So researchers are putting whoops straps on people admitted

with coronavirus, admitted to the hospital to gain a better understanding of how their bodies are

reacting to the disease, both in the hospital and after they're discharged. And then experts at Duke

are trying to better predict how certain high-risk patients might respond to the ICU experience.

I thought this was really fascinating. I think it's really important work that's being done.

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