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

and we are on a mission to unlock human performance. What does that mean? It means we collect

data using hardware and software and analytics to help you understand

your body. We measure things like sleep and recovery and strain, the strain you put on your body.

And we measure respiratory rate, which has turned out in the past few months to go from being

the most boring statistic on WOOop to being the most fascinating.

And before we get to our world-renowned sleep expert, Dr. Chuck Seisler, I just want to give

everyone a quick update that Woop was found in a study on 271 people, and it found that Woop

can predict COVID-19. Now, we don't say that casually. It's

certainly surreal for me, even just to say that out loud. However, our algorithm caught 20% of

pre-symptomatic cases and 80% of symptomatic cases by the third day. So that's pretty amazing because studies show

that most people aren't getting tested until seven days of symptoms of COVID-19. And so this

study on 271 people found that the WOOP algorithm and respiratory rate can be used to predict 20% of

cases again before symptoms, 80% by the third day of symptoms. And if you think about non-invasive

ways to stop the spread of COVID-19, that becomes pretty interesting.

We just saw this last week with Nick Watney, a professional golfer on the PGA tour.

And as everyone knows, PGA golf is happening right now.

So he wakes up, he's a whoop user, he sees he's got a really high respiratory rate,

much higher than his baseline, and all of a sudden

goes to a doctor and says, hey, I need to get tested for COVID-19, gets tested and tests

positive. And now as a result, he's able to quarantine without infecting anyone else on the

tour or any of his loved ones. So that is a pretty powerful story. I would encourage all WOOP members listening

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