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Hi all

Pretty massive for ResApp to have made the British national Daily newspaper know as The Times. This is equivalent to ResApp making it into the Wall Street Journal in the U. S:

The company needs to push this more it needs to be known to the public that:
"Australian scientists say their app is 99 per cent accurate for people without Covid and 92 per cent accurate in detecting positive cases"
ALAMY

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cough-at-your-phone-to-see-if-you-have-covid-twp3n3srn

The article has been posted below enjoy:

"Cough at your phone to see if you have Covid
App coveted by Pfizer uses sound to judge whether you are infected
April 18 2022, The Times
Several coughs into a phone are all that is needed to diagnose Covid-19 using a breakthrough in artificial intelligence developed by Australian scientists.
In what promises to vastly reduce reliance on swab tests, the smartphone app records the sound of coughing and instantly tells if coronavirus is the cause. The creators say it is more than 90 per cent accurate.
Pfizer, the American pharmaceutical giant, last week offered the equivalent of £57 million to buy ResApp, the small Australian developer that has trained an algorithm on a database of 6,000 coughs. Its owners, who are based in Brisbane, hope to be able to make the app available to the public soon.
Doctors in Australia, Indonesia and Switzerland are using a version of the app to help diagnose asthma and pneumonia during remote telehealth appointments.
Researchers only recently confirmed that the technology could also be used to detect Covid-19 if a patient coughed five times into a smartphone microphone.
Studies show that the app has a 92 per cent success rate in diagnosing Covid-19 but more clinical trials are needed for it to gain regulatory approval.
“That’s the big breakthrough that we’ve made over the last couple months,” Dr Tony Keating, chief executive of ResApp, said. “We’ve been able to match coughs down to positive Covid-19 results. So we’ve found signatures in cough sounds that give us an indication of Covid.”
Researchers have long known that some common respiratory diseases produce signature sounds — the wheezing associated with asthma or cracking in parts of the lung caused by pneumonia — but AI can also detect an array of sounds that the human ear cannot.
Keating said: “The computer is able to really pull apart that cough sound. There may be minute signatures in that cough sound that are different between a healthy person and one with Covid-19. With machine learning, we’re analysing all sorts of details about the cough sound. So it’s probably not audible to humans listening.”
The company said that tests using the ResApp technology showing a negative result for Covid-19 were 99 per cent accurate, while the accuracy rate for positive results was 92 per cent."

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