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Pfizer pays almost $120 million for app that detects COVID from a cough

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NBW News Pfizer pays almost $120 million for app that detects COVID from a cough

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Pfizer pays almost $120 million for app that detects COVID from a cough

  • September 30, 2022

Pharma giant Pfizer has shelled out nearly US$120 million to acquire a small Australian company claiming to have developed a smartphone app that can accurately diagnose COVID-19 by analyzing the sound of a cough.

Initially the system was trained to diagnose pneumonia, but by 2019 the researchers had shown the technology could effectively distinguish asthma, croup and bronchiolitis.

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