Alabama, North Dakota, and South Carolina become the first states to announce they'll use Apple and Google's exposure notification API
During the pandemic remote cardiac monitoring tech is becoming increasingly important; Physicians and experts expect the trend to persist post-pandemic, and continue to include consumer smartwatches
MA, NY, CA pursue traditional human-based contact tracing strategy, shunning digital solutions; Experts push for human-based national strategy
Apple contributed $10M from its advanced manufacturing fund to help a company producing COVID-19 sample collection kits; First grant from this fund unrelated to Apple's supply chain
Apple Heart Study recruited over 400,000 to monitor for AFib with Apple Watches, and detected 2,200 possible AFib events; Struggled with attrition as less than half who received alerts followed up with a physician
Apple and Google release developer resources for Exposure Notification UI; Includes policies barring location tracking, limiting to one app per country, and requiring explicit user permissions
Article in European Heart Journal claims Apple Watch Series 4 detected myocardial ischemia in an 80-year-old woman
