Chap, I've just been sent a link on my iPhone to an app that once you enter your data in will help the NHS and this country to track Covid-19.

I'll try and post the url - once I logon to this forum on my phone, I'm not sure if this is available on android.

You enter your symptoms once a day - seems like a good idea to assist us all.

Keep safe - and stay indoors.

bump

Has ANYONE of you actually done this or am I alone in helping the sciences develop the data to beat this mess.

Is there an android version?

Yes

https://covid.joinzoe.com/

icu81b4 wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 26, 2020 8:51 pm

Has ANYONE of you actually done this or am I alone in helping the sciences develop the data to beat this mess.

Just you. You'd best be good.

icu81b4 wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 26, 2020 8:51 pm

Has ANYONE of you actually done this or am I alone in helping the sciences develop the data to beat this mess.

Android version required as I don't have an 'i-phone' I use a Samsung S9 plus

See my earlier post

icu81b4 wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 26, 2020 9:05 pm

Yes

https://covid.joinzoe.com/

My anti-virus software keeping me away from that link


Edit I am not making a joke neither McAfee nor Malwarebytes recommending visiting

https://covid.joinzoe.com/

Saying its a dangerous site?

Oh... It isn't

Edit . It's a page that has links to either the Apple Store or Google Play

icu81b4 wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 26, 2020 9:15 pm

Oh... It isn't

Edit . It's a page that has links to either the Apple Store or Google Play

Not what my anti-virus software tells me .....

Guys, when there's something "in the news" the scammers get thinking, hmm, I wonder how we can use that to scam some more money.

Be careful and think before you click.

EDIT: However, since I made this post have seen a report in The Times that mentions this app. It is genuine - this one is not a scam. It may be that using this app assists getting to grips with coronavirus.

Paul Waine wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 26, 2020 9:46 pm

Guys, when there's something "in the news" the scammers get thinking, hmm, I wonder how we can use that to scam some more money.

Be careful and think before you click.

Exactly Paul

I don't want to click and get a virus!!!

THIS IS NOT A SCAM...

Ok please look for the Covid Sympton tracker on your App Store ...it's important

My cousin is a senior clinician in the NHS and confirms this is genuine

I have the app on my phone .... My extended family .... That includes NHS workers and managers have it on their phones, my friends have it on their phones

HELP THE NHS . GET THE APP

Paul Waine wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 26, 2020 9:46 pm

Guys, when there's something "in the news" the scammers get thinking, hmm, I wonder how we can use that to scam some more money.

Be careful and think before you click.

Paul, I understand that you DO need to be wary and their are some scumbags who like to take advantage of these situations, but please read the link below


Quotes from the link shown below.

King’s College London has launched an app enabling people to report symptoms of Covid-19 so that the progression of the disease can be tracked in real time.
The free monitoring app has been developed as a partnership between researchers at King’s and health data science company ZOE. It will be widely available to health staff and the general public who wish to contribute to this research.

“The more of the public that also use the app, the better the real-time data we will have to combat the outbreak in this country.”


https://www.digitalhealth.net/2020/03/k ... id-19-app/

icu81b4 wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 27, 2020 9:33 am

Paul, I understand that you DO need to be wary and their are some scumbags who like to take advantage of these situations, but please read the link below


Quotes from the link shown below.

King’s College London has launched an app enabling people to report symptoms of Covid-19 so that the progression of the disease can be tracked in real time.
The free monitoring app has been developed as a partnership between researchers at King’s and health data science company ZOE. It will be widely available to health staff and the general public who wish to contribute to this research.

“The more of the public that also use the app, the better the real-time data we will have to combat the outbreak in this country.”


https://www.digitalhealth.net/2020/03/k ... id-19-app/

Hi icu81b4 (that's some user name), and my apologies on this occasion. Late last night I saw a report on the app in The Times. I agree, this one is definitely genuine - and may prove useful.

I will edit my original post to make it clear that this app isn't a scam.

Thanks Paul.

ps. I used to be a huge Van Halen fan ... They had an album called OU812 ... hence my username.

Not much that coincides apart from 81.

IanMcL wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 27, 2020 10:27 pm

Not much that coincides apart from 81.

OU812 = Oh You Ate One Too

icu81b4 = I See You Ate One BeFore

So it's a theme .... The Van Halen Forom was full of them at the time, I guess you had to be there

Definitely legit guys. A Nigerian Prince who has asked me to help him transfer some gold has vouched for it and says its actually run by a few of his business associates

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 26, 2020 9:37 pm

Not what my anti-virus software tells me .....

Screenshot_20200326-213602_Chrome.jpg

Your virus checker is legitimately flagging the HTTP:// try going to the HTTPS:// page instead

Can’t it track your location and use your camera without telling you? I’m sure there was something about emails aswell. Obviously a lot of apps ask for your permission to use camera and microphone etc but this one seems dodgy.

icu81b4 wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 29, 2020 10:46 am

OU812 = Oh You Ate One Too

icu81b4 = I See You Ate One BeFore

So it's a theme .... The Van Halen Forom was full of them at the time, I guess you had to be there

Thanks for the education.

I never got past SWALK!

Zesty wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 29, 2020 2:43 pm

Can’t it track your location and use your camera without telling you? I’m sure there was something about emails aswell. Obviously a lot of apps ask for your permission to use camera and microphone etc but this one seems dodgy.

The tracker wants to know where you are situated because ... THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT!!! ..So the scientists can see where the virus is most virulent. It does NOT need to use your microphone or camera.

All you have to do is go into the app once a day and answer the question

"Have you had a test for COVID-19" - I answer No

"How do you feel physically right now?" - Their are two options ... 1. "I feel physically normal" or 2. "I'm not feeling quite right"
- I answer 1.

I don't know what the next question would be if I answered 2. because I haven't had to.

That's all there is to it ... I'm not sure why anyone would NOT want to help fight this thing.

There are reliable data and unreliable data. This website will add very little as in that group will be 1) pranksters 2) snotty noses with Corvid-19 3)snotty noses without Corvid-19 3) really ill people but at home with Corvid-19 4) really sick people who do not have it. Not on it will be those with and without illness who do not report it and those with Corvid-19 who are oblivious to the fact that they have it.
Result a pea soup of data that no-one can see through, although knowing Tim Spector he will try
I think this will become a completely useless data set

Interview on R4 this morning said the NHS is developing it's own app and will want to get as many people as possible on it.

A difficulty though is that there are several now being developed which will spread the data thinner amongst them all making it less useful.
The NHS may ask UK app developers to cease their apps and attempt to migrate people on to theirs.