Natural Cycles Launches COVID-19 Symptom Trackers In-App – Yahoo Finance

Natural Cycles, the first and only FDA cleared birth control app, has released new functionality to help track users’ symptoms if they feel sick and are experiencing potential COVID-19 symptoms.

The optional Natural Cycles trackers allow users to track their own symptoms in real time and share them with their healthcare provider. They will also be able to track a negative or positive COVID-19 test. Natural Cycles’ dedicated research team may then be able to study the data in anonymized form to better understand the spread and the effects of the virus in different parts of the world.

Natural Cycles, which has over 1.5 million registered users across 162 countries, is powered by an algorithm that uses a woman’s individual basal body temperature to determine her daily fertility status. Users are already taking their temperature each morning with their Natural Cycles thermometer and combining this temperature tracking already taking place with the COVID-19 symptom trackers will provide a unique opportunity in real time to follow the development of the virus.

The company has already seen a spike in temperature data being added over the past few weeks.

Elina Berglund. “We asked ourselves how we can better help our users, as well as the medical community, and immediately dedicated internal resources to release our COVID-19 symptom trackers functionality to users everywhere on an expedited timeline.”

Natural Cycles is able to detect unusually elevated body temperature on an individual basis – potentially before it reaches a fever level- and automatically excludes it from the algorithm. If this happens, Natural Cycles sends users a message in the app to let them know.

While the trackers are provided for temporary documentation purposes only and are in no way intended to replace a professional medical diagnosis or treatment, Natural Cycles continues to work closely with healthcare professionals. The company donated hundreds of thermometers and subscriptions to healthcare workers on the frontline of the Coronavirus efforts for monitoring purposes. It has also already received inquiries from renowned third-party institutions looking for data of this kind to help support further research around Coronavirus.

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