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One out of ten people diagnosed with COVID-19 requires supplemental oxygen to survive. In response, Optica’s Global Health Initiative (GHI) and the Optica Foundation are collaborating with IndiaCovidSOS to ship optics-driven oxygen
saturation meters—pulse oximeters—to communities in limited-resource settings in India, Nepal and Bangladesh.
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