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It’s hard enough to talk about your feelings to a person; Jo Aggarwal, the founder and CEO of Wysa, is hoping you’ll find it easier to confide in a robot. Or, put more specifically, “emotionally intelligent” artificial intelligence.
Wysa is an AI-powered mental health app designed by Touchkin eServices, Aggarwal’s company that currently maintains headquarters in Bangalore, Boston and London. Wysa is something like a chatbot that can respond with words of affirmation, or guide a user through one of 150 different therapeutic techniques.
Wysa is Aggarwal’s second venture. The first was an elder care company that failed to find market fit, she says. Aggarwal found herself falling into a deep depression, from which, she says, the idea of Wysa was born in 2016.
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(NEW YORK) When Katharine Lee, a postdoctoral research fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, and Kathryn Clancy, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, each say they experienced unexpected menstrual cycles after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, they did what researchers do and began to collect data.
Clancy conferred with Lee, who said several colleagues had also reported differing menstrual symptoms, and issued a single tweet in late February explaining her own symptoms and asking if anyone else had experienced anything similar.
Three months later, Lee and Clancy say more than 80,000 people have documented their experiences in an online survey they collaborated on examining short-term vaccine side effects related to the menstrual cycle.
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If protection from a deadly disease were not enough, New Jerseyans receiving a COVID-19 vaccine shot this month could also get free beer, free wine, a free pass to state parks, $1,000 off a Rowan University bill and the chance to dine with Gov. Phil Murphy and his wife.
But is all of that incentive enough for New Jersey to reach its vaccination goals?
Probably not, experts say.
Incentive programs are hit-or-miss propositions in the day-to-day dealings of the average American consumer whether it s a rebate on a new car or a sale on carrots. They drive sales. They influence choices. But to what degree is always uncertain. In health care, it s even murkier.