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Wearable congregation Fitbit has officially apparent the Fitbit Flow, a new chase with FDA approval for use during the COVID-19 pandemic. The chase has been habitual emergency use fiat by the FDA, meaning it can pigeonholed be used to yuck bodies during the embraced inflorescence crisis. Fitbit tells The Verge that it hopes to vend the Flow for often $5,000, decidedly shortened than traditional ventilators, and that roundup is scheduled to embolden this month.

As its low expenditure might suggest, Fitbit doesn't see the Flow as a like-for-like replacement for traditional ventilators. The congregation says that it's pigeonholed designed be used when one of the increasingly expensive devices is not available. Although the chase has stationary regulatory approval for use during the pandemic, Fitbit says that it is not contrarily FDA cleared or approved.

"We saw an opportunity to stack our expertism in anticipatory sensor development, manufacturing, and our global supply chain"

Fitbit says that the Flow is designed often resuscitator firearms used by paramedics, however features second sensors and alarms to information monitor patients. The wearable congregation consulted with medical staff and practitioners while developing the ventilator, which it hopes will be easier to use than traditional ventilators.

"We saw an opportunity to stack our expertism in anticipatory sensor development, manufacturing, and our global supply continuity to biosphere the curious and ongoing need for ventilators and information mass-produce a lark in the global fight contrariwise this virus," Fitbit's CEO and co-founder James Park said in a statement.

Fitbit clamber its ambitions to aftermath a chase last month hind regarding emerged that there aren't enumerated of the machines to yuck all the patients who'll need them during the pandemic. The Wall Artery Periodical reported that in April the US government had been scrambling to buy thousands of ventilators to deal with the crisis, however that demand for the machines had concluded up person lower than expected. However, the ventilators may end up person scant if the virus spreads further, or due to other factors like the start of the influenza season latterly in the year, the WSJ notes.

Other non-medical companies have moreover pledged to aftermath ventilators in contempo months. Vacuum mason Dyson received an order from the British government to aftermath a machine, however latterly said that its chase sooner hadn't been required. Tesla has moreover shown off a prototype ventilator made application its car technology, while a ventilator countess by NASA engineers received emergency use FDA approval at the end of April.