Mind the widening COVID gap

[@denisereynolds2399]

Thankyou , for these little crumbs of comfort, as us over 60s need a little bit of good news these days 🙏🏻❤️

[@Debs440606]

I love your app. I tell everyone to use it and explain how it’s different to the nhs app. I’ve used it since March and love the fact you get facts with no political slant. Thank you for all the hard work you’re putting in x

[@ireneconnor1380]

Thank you for the update it is so useful to check the local data. I second that you might think of adding the behaviour questions back in. Stay safe and thanks to you and your team.

[@nicolaoffert4006]

Many thanks for this update. This is a much trusted source of information and I thank everyone involved. Keep safe everyone.

[@dharmacharinipasadanandi7110]

Thanks. Maybe you would consider reinstating (and adding) some behaviour questions back into the app, to see where people are socialising, e.g. #members in a household, what setting they frequent, . Not just healthcare settings, but work, schools and places of worship. Schools are driving this, you just don't have the data. I never bet, but my friends and I would lay money on it.

[@tray8820]

Yes, I would lay money on it too!

[@smarty6090]

I agree

[@dsanli7632]

It'd be good to see how many of us are working remotely and in office too

[@dharmacharinipasadanandi7110]

@@dsanli7632 yep

[@smarty6090]

I made a conscious effort to keep my contact with other people in shops etc to a minimum, mind you I still do.

[@lenboyd2357]

Thanks for the app been recording my condition from the start / very much appreciate your efforts thank you

[@neilwalden7691]

Thank you Professor for your regular, measured and informative presentations.

[@juliesmith1337]

Thank you. Great previous comments too. I was offered a test via you after showing symptoms last week. Fortunately I had had a test and received results quickly so did not need. Keep up the great work.

[@heathersmith665]

Just debating whether to go for an invited test as only got a snuffly nose

[@amandabryant110]

Just the facts, plain and simple. Thanks once again for you and the team's hard work.

[@pontyexpat]

I believe the advantages of your "real time" report over the ONS/PHE (& equivalent in other nations) provides better appreciation of what's happening now, not 2 or more weeks ago, much more useful & may help earlier intervention before situations escalate.

[@leehewitt9559]

Keep up the good work, Tim!

[@christineday1181]

Thankyou so much for the effort and commitment to the task in hand of battling with this horrible disease. Your research is invaluable and we are very grateful for your communication and balanced views given on this forum!

[@JH-me]

Thanks Tim I can rely on you for a bit of positivity..🤗

[@sb8967]

Like the previous commentator. We've used and supported this research programme since March. To now the analysis of Covid 19 and trends is 2 weeks ahead of Govt / SAGE. Thank you. This research programme illustrates Britain at its very best.

[@freebirdh604]

Hello Tim, thank you Tim and team Zoe....... from south east England. I expect that we will eventually follow the same trend as throughout the U.K, I had tradesmen visit my property during the week, needed to come inside the property.....not having the courtesy to wear face coverings.🤔☮️ take care everyone. 🙏

[@helenmcghee1510]

Thankyou Tim; always so good to have your measured commentary.

[@janecowell5321]

Thank you for an evidence based and honest assessment

[@evasell7732]

Thank you Tim! I really appreciate your video news bulletins and all you and your teams hard work to date. To hear directly from a team so close to studying this pandemic is so welcomed. A huge thank you.

[@angiegillman1234]

Thank for these updates...glad to be a part of the wider study.

[@sniperpd9505]

Tim, please give us contributors something to do in addition to logging in and selecting 'I have never had a test' and 'I'm physically normal'. What happened to the information on diet and lifestyle that we provided months ago. Why are so many of us not getting infected. Is it because we have a good diet or we take vitamin D or zinc. What is the reason. Use us contributors now while we are still interested in reporting.

[@phildiamo3771]

Are sufficient older people using the Zoe app for your conclusion. I know some over 70s who happily use a computer but don't use any apps. Some use a smartphone as a phone only or they still use basic 2G phones because they keep the charge for a week or two. Thy are not constantly on the move so a desktop version of the Zoe app would work well for them.

[@robertedge1312]

He has 4.3 million contributors.

[@andreesmith7051]

@@robertedge1312 it would be interesting to know the percentage of the various age ranges taking part . Are young people bothering with the Zoe app? There was a definite shortage of children's results when they first went back to school.

[@patricianaiker2747]

Im 78 and have been useing it since it started. I had covid in march.

[@phildiamo3771]

@@robertedge1312 What is their age profile.

[@robertedge1312]

I don’t know. Best email the Prof direct - [e-mail]

[@tracyfromcornwalltheneonnu3524]

Our numbers down here in South West have doubled in hospital admissions in a week !!!

[@godislove8740]

Doubled to what? 2? Meaningless without a number I'm afraid.

[@ausencia63]

Thank you for the updates. I actually find them less anxiety ridden and more informative than the government briefings 👍

[@belindawylie4526]

Many thanks and much appreciated a calm ,cool head!

[@sallycarroll265]

Thank you so much for the clarity with which you impart your knowledge & of course for all that you & your team do.

[@jolewis-brown6608]

Thank you Tim to you and the team.

[@cr0uchingtiger]

Please keep this info coming. All we hear on TV is dread and darkness.

[@rogerthompson2467]

Thanx for the update - please don't forget N Ireland when you summarise the UK wide situation...makes me feel unwanted!

[@jaxworld4490]

Thank you Tim and team i look to you weekly Covid19 advice, stay safe one and all. 😷

[@champfeilden3674]

so appreciate your work as trustworthy as no political agenda behind statistics 🙏

[@ethellepoh7375]

Fair comment,however, after seven months of statistical errors and propaganda it's incumbent on all of us to examine the facts behind the figures. Time to face up to things like the PCR test is not a diagnostic tool and so it's erroneous to call a positive result a case. Infection and infectious are different. Examine the number of deaths in your area. Have people died with or from, how old were they, other illnesses, already terminally ill? Can't ignore this stuff. Remember too that covid19 is 24th on the list of deadly diseases in the UK. As such is it worth all of this upheaval and destruction. I'm not picking on you just inviting you to think more for yourself, find stuff out for yourself beyond the BBC and even helpful this channel. Spread the awareness. It's the only way we'll stop the madness. Can't control a virus.

[@Flat-White]

Are you joking? These guys have been flooded with taxpayers cash ever since their numbers have been made to fit the narrative.

[@elisabethgroves778]

Thanks for your updates. I love that I can see the movement of the virus in my area, but scary that it's risen sharply in the last few days. Most of us older people are being very careful to keep safe!

[@maggoodwin4947]

Thank you for continuing to be the voice of reason and hope. I despair of the BBC news!

[@Skylark_Jones]

I have heard on the radio and seen the headlines that hospitals in Liverpool and Manchester are not faring well; that infections are rising everywhere and that the tier system of restrictions isn't working even though the north have been under restrictions for months. According to your app infections in the London borough where I live increases every single day, the same in the borough where are work. There is no good news from where I'm looking. 😕

[@orchid7580]

Nor from my vantage point here, sandwiched between Liverpool and Manchester. The Nightingale Hospital opens next week and Liverpool Hospitals have confirmed that they have more COVID patients than at first peak. 😢

[@johnedwards3446]

Local Liverpool newspaper says infections are going down in Liverpool since restrictions applied. Your info and mine differ. One of the problems in this is getting fact and not biased info or someone with an agenda.

[@Jess_ica2927]

@@orchid7580 a lot of places in NW England suffering now because the first lockdown left too many people susceptible and pushed the peak into winter. It's awful 😞 I hope you are okay and stay safe

[@orchid7580]

@@johnedwards3446 infections going down isn’t the same as hospital admissions though is it, due to the obvious lag between the two. When I wrote the above comment 6 days ago, the Liverpool hospitals had confirmed treating more Covid patients than at the peak. I’ve also heard alarming reports from local hospital A&E consultants, so direct from the “horses mouth” with no agenda.

[@kimfarmer8659]

Thank you, as always the voice of reason based on the statistics currently available. Reassuring to have a point of contact/ info that is open , honest & factual. Thanks for all involved for all your hard work :)

[@nickdougan394]

Tim, thank you for another update, which I have actually come and listened to on KZbin for the first time having just watched them through the app so far. I have been reporting (more or less) daily since March, when I did have "interesting" symptoms to report, although whether they were of Covid-19 I don't and may never know. If I understand this correctly there is a gap between the number of new cases that you are estimating from the symptoms and the government numbers derived from testing. Do you think that this is evidence that the PCR test is producing a significant number of false positives? I would also be interested to hear how accurately your symptom questionnaire will differentiate Covid-19 from seasonal flu or any other respiratory diseases. Thanks again for a rational voice in a hubbub of hysteria.

[@gabrielleandrews7582]

Contact budgeting for all of us especially over 60s. Simply regulate or limit your contacts to minimum and keep a note of weekly activity..

[@edwardmclaughlin7935]

My next-door neighour just had to stay home for two weeks after being tested positive. He used his time to decorate his kitchen and bathroom. My Brother-in-law has just tested positive and he's not showing any symptoms at all. Is this what is scaring so many people?

[@janefreeland8416]

Thank you for this plain speaking - I like the app and have been using it since March - though time goes so oddly that I sometimes find I've missed a day! Hope this doesn't make me less useful. I particularly like the sober way you tell it like it is.

[@simonchetwynd]

Thank you, your updates are really appreciated

[@johnbird6797]

As the number of hospitalisation sand deaths are rising steeply but the app appears to show less dramatic rises do you need to move from looking at the last 14 days to say the last 7 days in reporting the trends. Also are you able to correlate your findings to the sewerage monitoring that has been taking place??

[@andyp7225]

Thanks team👍🏻👍🏻

[@mypiece8547]

Can you add BACK PAIN symptom to your list of questions? Anecdotally I think this is a COvid symptom that is being missed. I dismissed it myself initially. I had an intense back/hip pain for a few hours that I thought was a twisted muscle but after several discussions with someone else who tested positive- they said their only symptom was back pain - and another friend’s wife had lower back pain and my friend had loss of smell and went for acupuncture for back before testing became accessible.

[@andrewtrip8617]

Seems reasonable, you have Ace 2 receptors in your spine so can’t imagine covid would not be able to find them after a while .

[@mypiece8547]

@@andrewtrip8617 What are Ace 2 receptors?

[@paultraynorbsc627]

Thanks Tim much appreciated 👍 And have retweeted

[@kathwinwood7611]

Thanks for the update We are in our 70s and have followed the guidelines to the nth degree.If we catch Covid it wont be because of irresponsible behaviour by ourselves.Wishing you all the best and stay well.

[@crispinbarker4286]

Great work, thank you so much for what you are doing

[@dianeharcourt9518]

Thank you, Professor. I shall keep logging. I, too, would like to see the survey of activities back and also a breakdown by age-group. Are there any stats relating to Diabetes, especially type 1? Thanks again for your hard work, clarity and useful links.

[@lylemcelderry6063]

Thank you for the updates. They are really useful. I understand that the number of positive tests are increasing, but so too, we are told are the number of tests. So, is the rate of infection increasing if the ratios of positives: tests are compared between now and, say, March? Thanks.

[@hannahkay1913]

I was pleased to be asked to do a Covid test in the interest of data collection. However, there was no swab in my kit. So I had to cancel my courier. He did turn up though, and if that isn't bad enough, I've just had another courier turn up this morning. What a waste of time and resources.

[@fredneecher1746]

When you say 36, 000 *symptomatic* cases, do you mean hospital admissions? If not, how would you know who has symptoms, and who would decide what they are symptoms of? Or did you just mean 36,000 positive test results?

[@ritawilliams8508]

Maybe at least the younger generations will start developing herd community and us oldies will just have continue to be cautious, get fit and hope for a vaccine.

[@Jess_ica2927]

That does seem like the only long-term strategy! Hope you stay safe and well 😊

[@patriciaperrin1764]

I get confused with the different numbers from different sources. Can you make it clearer whether the numbers you quote are daily rates, weekly rates, new cases or people still feeling ill or people still contagious. Thanks

[@ianichaos]

Is there an element of selection bias in the Zoe app figures, since the app is voluntary and likely to be used by people who care and are taking the right precautions?

[@irenedymond5579]

Thank you

[@carotrike]

Does this mean we're moving towards another national lockdown do you think? Thank you once again for all you and the team's hard work.

[@andrewmason7686]

Could the low increase in over 60s be due to the age profile of people using the app? i.e. the data set is not representative of the whole population?

[@michaelevans797]

Thank you 👍👍

[@kiwipics]

@ZOE ... The spread amongst younger is just part of the (excuse the term) "no shit sherlock" effect. The average intelligent person could of told you that back at the start. I'm a young (not OAP) post ICU COVID19 patient, who contracted COVID19 back in early April, and due to the way in which I was infected and my (6x negative) test results, I don't appear in your figures, and don't get included in any follow ups or research. Local cases and infection rates go against your "don't worry" approach ... That is making people complacent, and then the infection rates and hospitalisation rates will rise amongst all age groups. Yes .... I work in a hospital.

[@jaynecooper6681]

I have tried to get on Zoe but it will not let me. Anyone know why?

[@dawndouglas9315]

Try uninstalling it and reinstalling, I had that problem the 1st time I downloaded the app. Hope that helps😊

[@jaynecooper6681]

@@dawndouglas9315 thank you Dawn. Will do 👍

[@dawndouglas9315]

@@jaynecooper6681 hope that works for you😊🌷

[@jaynecooper6681]

@@dawndouglas9315 tried it but I still can’t get past the create account page. It just freezes there. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@dawndouglas9315]

@@jaynecooper6681 strange!!!! I don't know what else to suggest🤔isn't it a nuisance when you want an app and it doesn't respond. How about going on Zoe webpage and see if you can download it direct or, contact Zoe to ask for help🤔🤨hope you manage to get it sorted🤞🤞🤞x

[@samcaldwell7694]

The trouble is you will get another professor saying something completely different sage the government advisers wanted to lock down weeks ago they really cannot win

[@HektorBandimar]

Professor Spector, why aren't you advising the government? .....You seem pretty certain that it's nothing to worry about.

[@Flat-White]

An app created by a behavioural targeting specialist. Keep receiving Government cash. You have blood on your hands.

[@Anam0408]

Trends in what ? false positives , what is the purpose of this channel ?

[@19thewanderer]

Cases??? What about the deaths?? Almost identical as the last 5 years......its the FLU. ffs.

[@mikefoster1099]

Explain why you think Covid is the flu, are you medically qualified to comment?

[@orange70383]

@@mikefoster1099 If you haven't figured out by now that this pandemic isn't real then I doubt you could read this anyway,

[@tray8820]

thank you

[@sarahatkinson4572]

Thank you