The COVID Symptom Study app and NHS COVID-19 app are different. Here’s why you need both!

donnyrovers91

The COVID Symptom Study app - https://covid.joinzoe.com/

As most of you already know, the COVID Symptom Study app is a global public science project supported by the UK government and crowd-funding, with more than 4.2 million participants providing vital health data to help researchers and the NHS understand and beat COVID-19. And it’s thanks to your ongoing support since March that we have been able to achieve some pivotal successes in the fight against COVID, like: getting loss of smell recognised officially as a major COVID symptom (as well as delirium as a key symptom in frail older adults), rapidly identifying local hotspots ahead of time, providing the government with daily data updates and much more!

The COVID Symptom Study asks you, our study participants, to log daily health updates across a wide range of potential symptoms. We invite participants to book an NHS test if they report symptoms (including but not limited to the ‘classic’ three) that might be caused by COVID-19. Please note, the COVID Symptom Study does not have any contact tracing or QR check-in facilities. It cannot access your phone’s Bluetooth, GPS, location data or contacts, and does not track you as you move around.

The NHS COVID-19 app - https://www.nhs.uk/apps-library/nhs-covid-19/?utm_source=COVID+Symptom+Tracker&utm_campaign=efd6a69ff6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_10_05_03_48&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9878f64c38-efd6a69ff6-446138165&mc_cid=efd6a69ff6&mc_eid=9535619f5e

Unlike us, the NHS COVID-19 app has been created to support the government’s efforts to control the spread of the virus through testing and contact tracing. It has a basic symptom checker, which includes the three ‘classic’ symptoms, to help identify people eligible for a test. It also notifies users if they’ve been in 'close contact' with someone who then tests positive for coronavirus and allows them to check in to venues using a QR code.
 

The bottom line

The apps are totally separate and entirely compatible, meaning you can and are highly encouraged to use both to help us all get through the pandemic.

It’s important for as many people as possible to keep using the COVID Symptom Study app to monitor their health on a daily basis and contribute to vital research into the pandemic. You can also log on behalf of family and friends who aren’t able to use the app, including children and the elderly.


We need everyone to play their part to help us all get through this. We urge you to download and use both apps to help us get through COVID-19 over the months ahead.

bradders1983

I am happy to have neither, thanks all the same.

hb2

bradders1983 said:

I am happy to have neither, thanks all the same.

Me too. I've only recently got my first smartphone (reluctantly, I had been very happy with my old 'dumb phone') and am not about to installing loads of apps onto it.

Takmon

hb2 said:

bradders1983 said:

I am happy to have neither, thanks all the same.

Me too. I've only recently got my first smartphone (reluctantly, I had been very happy with my old 'dumb phone') and am not about to installing loads of apps onto it.

bradders1983 said:

I am happy to have neither, thanks all the same.

So why will you two not have the Apps? The only way we will be able to control this virus is through a good track and trace system and people like you who resist any attempt at this just means it will continue for longer and longer with the potential for more and more lockdowns.

bradders1983

Because its a useless app that drinks battery and nobody has to legally pay any attention to it. Any further questions?

Stompa

bradders1983 said:

that drinks battery...

Incorrect.

bradders1983

Oh really? Never mind. I am still not downloading it for the other reason.

Pollycat

donnyrovers91 said:

The COVID Symptom Study app - https://covid.joinzoe.com/

As most of you already know, the COVID Symptom Study app is a global public science project supported by the UK government and crowd-funding, with more than 4.2 million participants providing vital health data to help researchers and the NHS understand and beat COVID-19. And it’s thanks to your ongoing support since March that we have been able to achieve some pivotal successes in the fight against COVID, like: getting loss of smell recognised officially as a major COVID symptom (as well as delirium as a key symptom in frail older adults), rapidly identifying local hotspots ahead of time, providing the government with daily data updates and much more!

The COVID Symptom Study asks you, our study participants, to log daily health updates across a wide range of potential symptoms. We invite participants to book an NHS test if they report symptoms (including but not limited to the ‘classic’ three) that might be caused by COVID-19. Please note, the COVID Symptom Study does not have any contact tracing or QR check-in facilities. It cannot access your phone’s Bluetooth, GPS, location data or contacts, and does not track you as you move around.

The NHS COVID-19 app - https://www.nhs.uk/apps-library/nhs-covid-19/?utm_source=COVID+Symptom+Tracker&utm_campaign=efd6a69ff6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_10_05_03_48&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9878f64c38-efd6a69ff6-446138165&mc_cid=efd6a69ff6&mc_eid=9535619f5e

Unlike us, the NHS COVID-19 app has been created to support the government’s efforts to control the spread of the virus through testing and contact tracing. It has a basic symptom checker, which includes the three ‘classic’ symptoms, to help identify people eligible for a test. It also notifies users if they’ve been in 'close contact' with someone who then tests positive for coronavirus and allows them to check in to venues using a QR code.
 

The bottom line

The apps are totally separate and entirely compatible, meaning you can and are highly encouraged to use both to help us all get through the pandemic.

It’s important for as many people as possible to keep using the COVID Symptom Study app to monitor their health on a daily basis and contribute to vital research into the pandemic. You can also log on behalf of family and friends who aren’t able to use the app, including children and the elderly.


We need everyone to play their part to help us all get through this. We urge you to download and use both apps to help us get through COVID-19 over the months ahead.

This doesn't sound like a post from a general poster.
Do you have approval from MSE to your these 2 apps?

Thrugelmir

Takmon said:

hb2 said:

bradders1983 said:

I am happy to have neither, thanks all the same.

Me too. I've only recently got my first smartphone (reluctantly, I had been very happy with my old 'dumb phone') and am not about to installing loads of apps onto it.

bradders1983 said:

I am happy to have neither, thanks all the same.

The only way we will be able to control this virus is through a good track and trace system and people like you who resist any attempt at this just means it will continue for longer and longer with the potential for more and more lockdowns.

Focus groups suggest that far too many people are to put bluntly putting themselves first. Any system is only as good as people want it to be. 

hb2

Pollycat said:

donnyrovers91 said:

The COVID Symptom Study app - https://covid.joinzoe.com/

As most of you already know, the COVID Symptom Study app is a global public science project supported by the UK government and crowd-funding, with more than 4.2 million participants providing vital health data to help researchers and the NHS understand and beat COVID-19. And it’s thanks to your ongoing support since March that we have been able to achieve some pivotal successes in the fight against COVID, like: getting loss of smell recognised officially as a major COVID symptom (as well as delirium as a key symptom in frail older adults), rapidly identifying local hotspots ahead of time, providing the government with daily data updates and much more!

The COVID Symptom Study asks you, our study participants, to log daily health updates across a wide range of potential symptoms. We invite participants to book an NHS test if they report symptoms (including but not limited to the ‘classic’ three) that might be caused by COVID-19. Please note, the COVID Symptom Study does not have any contact tracing or QR check-in facilities. It cannot access your phone’s Bluetooth, GPS, location data or contacts, and does not track you as you move around.

The NHS COVID-19 app - https://www.nhs.uk/apps-library/nhs-covid-19/?utm_source=COVID+Symptom+Tracker&utm_campaign=efd6a69ff6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_10_05_03_48&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9878f64c38-efd6a69ff6-446138165&mc_cid=efd6a69ff6&mc_eid=9535619f5e

Unlike us, the NHS COVID-19 app has been created to support the government’s efforts to control the spread of the virus through testing and contact tracing. It has a basic symptom checker, which includes the three ‘classic’ symptoms, to help identify people eligible for a test. It also notifies users if they’ve been in 'close contact' with someone who then tests positive for coronavirus and allows them to check in to venues using a QR code.
 

The bottom line

The apps are totally separate and entirely compatible, meaning you can and are highly encouraged to use both to help us all get through the pandemic.

It’s important for as many people as possible to keep using the COVID Symptom Study app to monitor their health on a daily basis and contribute to vital research into the pandemic. You can also log on behalf of family and friends who aren’t able to use the app, including children and the elderly.


We need everyone to play their part to help us all get through this. We urge you to download and use both apps to help us get through COVID-19 over the months ahead.

This doesn't sound like a post from a general poster.
Do you have approval from MSE to your these 2 apps?

I see that the OP has started 3 very similar threads here over the past few weeks. I suspect they have some sort of axe to grind.

For the avoidance of doubt - I am very happy to follow any request to isolate issued by the official test and trace service, but not to download apps that have no legal authority.

silvercar

I'm more happy to have the symptoms app, than I am to have the track and trace one. 
Maybe when you can log that you are leaving a venue that you have logged in to I will feel it is more useful. So it has some idea of who was there at the same time as you.
Also, when it has some awareness of whether those that are in your vicinity are protected behind PPE or screens I will have more confidence in it. My bluetooth sees your bluetooth seems a very inadequate way of judging whether someone should need 14 days of isolation.