Interested to hear now that these are now being provided in the to people in the UK who have COVID but are not in hospital and who are in a high risk category.
I note that there was some discussion on LW about how useful they were likely to be as people would probably notice difficulty in breathing which usually comes with low oxygen levels. It turns out that with COVID oxygen levels can get low without people noticing—this was mentioned later on LW (April).
10 months ago there was the coronavirus justified practical advice thread.
This resulted in myself (and many many others) buying a pulse oximeter.
Interested to hear now that these are now being provided in the to people in the UK who have COVID but are not in hospital and who are in a high risk category.
I note that there was some discussion on LW about how useful they were likely to be as people would probably notice difficulty in breathing which usually comes with low oxygen levels. It turns out that with COVID oxygen levels can get low without people noticing—this was mentioned later on LW (April).