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Short Wave — Meet One Engineer Fixing A Racially Biased Medical Device
Not scored yet14m·2023-02-13·Science

Meet One Engineer Fixing A Racially Biased Medical Device

Short Wave

During the COVID-19 pandemic, one measurement became more important than almost any other: blood oxygen saturation. It was the one concrete number that doctors could use to judge how severe a case of COVID-19 was and know whether to admit people into the hospital and provide them with supplemental oxygen. But pulse…

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