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

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

and software and analytics that's designed to help you better understand

your body. And certainly that's been an important thing this time of year with coronavirus.

And many of you have been reaching out to us to understand how your whoop data is being

reflected in this crazy time, whether that's stress, whether that's more sleep

or less sleep.

And in particular, if there's anything that you might be able to tell in your whoop data

that relates to COVID-19.

So is there anything about your whoop data and how it's changing that could be predictive

of whether or not you have

COVID-19 or whether you're at risk for getting COVID-19. We've gotten a ton of messages about this.

And of course, as promised, this is the topic of today's podcast with Emily Capitaluppo, our brilliant VP of data science and research.

Now we're going to get to Emily in one second.

The timeline to understand here is that the week of March 7th, we initially added the

Whoop Journal into the Whoop app.

The Whoop Journal, of course, allows you to select all sorts of different behaviors and

see how they affect your body.

We then, a few days later, so on March 13, added the ability to tag COVID-19.

So we became the first consumer app that allowed for COVID-19 tracking in the app.

And the response that we saw was pretty amazing.

We had hundreds of positive responses in the first 24 hours, and those have only since grown.

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