Heart rate

What is the fever monitor? As of today, the Corona Data Donation Project features the Fever Monitor (see menu ‘Tools’ in the top navigation bar). The monitor depicts the time course of the fever detections that we obtain from the raw resting heart rate and step count data the donors provide.

In the last post Feverish we presented the first national “fever curve” based on and computed from the donors’ data. In this post, we not only want to give you an update on the national fever curve, but also want to show the results we obtained for the individual federal states in Germany.

Many things have changed in the last few months; the number of active Covid-19 cases and local Corona-regulation, but also everyday things like the weather. Many of these things can influence the vital data of our donors; for example, lifted lockdowns, bank holidays and good weather may lead to more sport activity and could potentially lead to a high resting heart rate.

The most important vital signal in our analysis is the resting heart rate. Since an increased heart rate could be a possible indicator for fever, which alone is a core symptom of COVID-19, the resting heart rate marks the basis for this study.