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A wearable to track pollution, even coronavirus particles

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Wearables have become quite a fashion now but they track basic things like heart rate and other information through clever algorithms. Now, Yale School of Public Health Assistant Professor Krystal Pollitt has made an unobtrusive wristband called Fresh Air. This wearable looks like a small wristwatch and works bades on an air sampler instead of a watch face to detect air pollutants and even COVID-19 particles in air.