Vehicle-based wellness diagnostic platform

A wellness diagnostic platform installed on a vehicle to identify potential passengers with evident symptoms of a contagious illness, comprising:

• a wellness monitoring unit including at least one or more cameras to capture at least one image associated with one or more physical characteristics of the potential passenger and conduct analytics on the captured physical characteristic or physical characteristics to determine whether analytic results conclude that the potential passenger has the contagious illness prior to boarding the vehicle;
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• a boarding confirmation unit communicatively coupled to the wellness monitoring unit, the boarding confirmation unit to receive at least a display object identifying a diagnostic result computed by the wellness monitoring unit that the potential passenger is (i) advised to board the vehicle when the wellness monitoring unit determines that the potential passenger is well after the analytic result determine that the potential passenger does not have the contagious illness or (ii) advised to refrain from boarding the vehicle when the potential passenger is determined to have the contagious illness.