By: CBS News
Smartwatches and other wearable devices that continuously measure users heart rates, skin temperature and other physiological markers can help spot coronavirus infections days before an individual is diagnosed.
Devices like the Apple Watch, Garmin and Fitbit watches can predict whether an individual is positive for COVID-19 even before they are symptomatic or the virus is detectable by tests, according to studies from leading medical and academic institutions, including Mount Sinai Health System in New York and Stanford University in California. Experts say wearable technology could play a vital role in stemming the pandemic and other communicable diseases.
A tight-knit community is rallying around the parents of a young boy who died just days before Christmas from an aggressive cancer.
William Wheeler, from Bundaberg, Queensland, lost his battle with neuroblastoma - a cancer that develops from nerve cells - on December 15.
The two-year-old boy had been fighting the cancer since he was just 11-months-old, never experiencing a birthday outside hospital.
William s mother Lauren Wheeler said her son was such an amazing little boy and he was brave until the very end .
In a Facebook post following William s death, Lauren noted it had been two weeks since we watched you take your last breath .
The closure dashed the faint hopes 19-year-old teaching student Abbey Magee had of the decision being rescinded. This year Ms Magee was forced to study online due to the COVID-19 shutdown, but after voicing initial concerns about doing an online degree has come to terms with her situation. I don t mind, I just want to get the degree finished, Ms Magee said. CQUniversity Noosa education student Abbey Magee. Earlier this year, Prof Klomp said although CQU had almost 1000 students on the Sunshine Coast, only 16 per cent were enrolled as on-campus students at Noosa. This, combined with lower than expected student growth in the region, makes our continued physical presence at Noosa unsustainable in the long term, Prof Klomp said.