• Sleep Cycle reported results from a research collaboration with the UK Health Security Agency on passive nocturnal cough monitoring.
• Findings were released now in a medRxiv preprint, with peer review ongoing.
• Aggregated app cough trends broadly tracked established respiratory-illness activity indicators across England.
• The cough signal tended to move earlier than flu and COVID-19 activity, pointing to potential one-week advance situational awareness.
• Results support positioning the data as a complementary, near real-time input for public-health surveillance and related decision-support services.

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