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De-funding of Zoe Study
Posted: March 31st, 2022, 9:41 am
by Mike4
From another thread where this is off topic:
Mike4 wrote:redsturgeon wrote:
The "official" government daily figures are off by around a factor of 6 or 7 times. The ONS figures are more accurate but have a delay built in, the Zoe figures correspond quite closely to the ONS figures and are available on a daily basis.
Unfortunately the Zoe figures don't give the numbers that the government would like to see...I'd hate to think that's why they have been defunded.
Well it looks to me as though this is
exactly the reason for the defunding.
The official line that covid is done with and becoming endemic, we have to 'learn to live with it', the cancellation of all non-pharmacological interventions, the withdrawal of free testing for the masses, and the signal sent by 2,000 of our nobility having good ol' sing-song in Westminster Abbey on Tuesday are all pulling in the same direction, yet that naughty Zoë study is telling everyone the opposite. Why would our politicians
not de-fund it?
Given the sheer value of this study to medicine and the development of treatments for covid, de-funding it looks a horribly political decision to me.
Re: De-funding of Zoe Study
Posted: March 31st, 2022, 9:52 am
by pje16
Totally agreed....
The Zoe study is becoming about more than just Covid
Real people logging real symptoms is providing them with information about the human body
https://covid.joinzoe.com/wider-health-studies
Re: De-funding of Zoe Study
Posted: March 31st, 2022, 11:00 am
by redsturgeon
The cost of the Zoe funding is a rounding error in the money spent by government on Covid...about £5 million.
Compare and contrast the £200 million contract given to Tory Baroness Michelle Mone connected companies for PPE, most of which was never used.
John
Re: De-funding of Zoe Study
Posted: March 31st, 2022, 11:48 am
by dealtn
Why don't they monetise their aggregated, anonymised data when they share it? I tend to agree though its a small cost and from an economic perspective there is a large element of the product being a public good.
Re: De-funding of Zoe Study
Posted: March 31st, 2022, 12:19 pm
by redsturgeon
dealtn wrote:Why don't they monetise their aggregated, anonymised data when they share it? I tend to agree though its a small cost and from an economic perspective there is a large element of the product being a public good.
Good idea, then they could sell the data to the government...for say £5 million.
John
Re: De-funding of Zoe Study
Posted: March 31st, 2022, 12:36 pm
by pje16
Hang on to the £5m for research
UK gov would waste it in the blink of an eye
Re: De-funding of Zoe Study
Posted: March 31st, 2022, 12:40 pm
by dealtn
redsturgeon wrote:dealtn wrote:Why don't they monetise their aggregated, anonymised data when they share it? I tend to agree though its a small cost and from an economic perspective there is a large element of the product being a public good.
Good idea, then they could sell the data to the government...for say £5 million.
John
Exactly, and others too.