The Covid Symptoms Hidden in Our Voices
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
When we’re coming down with a cold or are feeling a bit stressed, or perhaps even exhibiting the first symptoms of COVID-19: minute changes to our voice are often one of the first indicators that something is wrong. These vocal biomarkers are often beyond what a human can detect: but what if an app on your phone could? Health reporter Michelle Fay Cortez recently spoke to David Liu, CEO of Sonde Health, which has released an app that uses a person’s voice to detect early symptoms of respiratory illnesses, including COVID-19. She explores what vocal biomarkers can tell us.
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| 0:31.1 | Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 328 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. |
| 0:41.1 | Today's main story, new technology promises it can spot early COVID-19 symptoms, |
| 0:48.6 | simply by listening to the sound of someone's voice. |
| 0:52.7 | But first, here's what happened in virus news today. |
| 1:04.8 | President Joe Biden's push for another large COVID-19 relief package got some help today. A surprisingly weak January |
| 1:14.0 | employment report helped make the case for substantial aid, and the Senate took action to smooth |
| 1:20.6 | the legislative path for his proposal. Private sector payrolls barely grew in January, while the restaurant and lodging sector |
| 1:29.4 | logged almost 600,000 in job losses over the past two months. |
| 1:35.7 | That's according to the monthly jobs report from the Labor Department out today. |
| 1:40.5 | While the jobless rate dipped to 6.3 percent that was partly because some Americans gave up looking for work. |
| 1:49.8 | The United Kingdom said it plans to offer everyone over the age of 50, a first dose of coronavirus vaccine, by May. |
| 1:58.8 | It's the first time that Boris Johnson's government has set a target for the next |
| 2:04.0 | stage of its vaccination program. The plan was included in an announcement that also said |
| 2:10.6 | local and mayoral elections will go ahead on May 6th, after they were delayed by a year due to the pandemic. |
| 2:19.5 | Finally, a study has found a surprisingly strong indicator of whether someone infected with |
| 2:25.6 | COVID-19 has a higher risk of severe disease and death. That indicator is whether they've |
| 2:32.8 | had pneumonia in the past, according to researchers at Harvard University. |
| 2:39.1 | A prior episode of pneumonia was the second greatest overall risk factor for death from COVID-19, the study showed. |
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