Cough Against COVID: Evidence of COVID-19 Signature in Cough Sounds

Understand

Testing capacity for COVID-19 remains a challenge globally due to the lack of adequate supplies, trained personnel, and sample-processing equipment.

• These problems are even more acute in rural and underdeveloped regions.
• We demonstrate that solicited-cough sounds collected over a phone, when analysed by our AI model, have statistically significant signal indicative of COVID-19 status (AUC 0.72, t-test,p <0.01,95% CI 0.61-0.83).
• This holds true for asymptomatic patients as well.