ZOE COVID Study app starts the week with a lockdown of its own The ZOE COVID study app is still reportedly wobbly for some users after being entirely down and out for several hours this morning. It's all impeccable timing considering the UK government upped the local COVID alert level over the weekend. The app, available on Android and iOS, has proven an invaluable source of data during …
Possibly due to a surge after the new round of Omicron panic. It'd be interesting to see traffic stats though, and how those correlate.
Seems an interesting app, especially as there's potential to expand to other symptom tracking. So Bbc helpfully points out that hospital admissions are higher now than in Spring in it's tracker. So far, so normal for Winter, it being the season for things like flu. Or another nasty, norovirus, which can be highly contagious, thoroughly unpleasant and relatively easy to describe by symptom. Plus something that isn't good to share, and is good to keep out of GPs and hospitals. It's also something anti-Covid measures might be helping with, ie masking and hand sanitising.
I have just started reading 'The Diet Myth' by prof Tim Spector*, basically saying that any diet advice which ignores your personal gut microbiota is unlikely to work. So sounds reasonable. The introduction does mention the ZOE app and Covid pandemic.
Only on page 22, though, so cannot give a full review just yet.
*ISBN 978-1-4746-1930-1
I remember when Dido Hardings woefully inadequate and eye-wateringly expensive solution emerged I thought to myself - surely this app needs to track symptoms reported by users, and be able to give an indication of likelihood of infection based on location and positive test data. I even considered what it would take to develop... however no-one was offering me billions to undertake the development...
The ZOE app was in use well before Dido started planning to build their own app. I was using it within the first few weeks of the pandemic, and have been using it fairly regularly since. Their information on COVID symptoms is very valuable, because its seems the official government advice of "Cogh" and "fever" are now well down the list of symptoms for Delta, and probably Omicron too. However the highest-ranked symptoms match those of a common cold, so I guess the government (at least for a while) was trying to limit expense by preventing everyone with a winter cold from testing for COVID.
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