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Emma Court

I used a $150 device to track my COVID risk. I got COVID anyway

My boyfriend wasn’t feeling well. Then again, that wasn’t too surprising.

We had just spent a weekend at New Orleans’ annual jazz festival, where we spent long days baking in 90 degree weather and drinking plenty of beer to stay cool. But hangovers and heatstroke weren’t the only potential culprits.

The risk of COVID was everywhere. I knew that because for weeks I had been carrying around a palm-sized, $150 carbon dioxide monitor that assesses exactly that.

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