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Appeal for volunteers in UK to be tested for COVID-19 to see how widespead it is
- mmmrk 7y agoUmm.. So I'm trying to find out if this survey is legit and I can't find a mention of it on https://www.research.ox.ac.uk/Area/coronavirus-research https://www.research.ox.ac.uk/Area/coronavirus-research or by googling "onlinesurveys coronavirus-disease-covid-19-in-the-uk-community site:ox.ac.uk"?
- robertwiblin 7y agohttps://covidstudy.zoo.ox.ac.uk/ https://covidstudy.zoo.ox.ac.uk/
- mmmrk 7y agoThanks. It's just weird that I can't easily find it by googling. Or maybe I'm doing something wrong...
- mrcartmenez 7y agoSo you’re going to test me and not tell me the results despite the fact I might kill a vulnerable member of my family if I come into contact with them? Yeah go fuck yourself
- travisporter 7y agoYeah that is unfortunate, but playing devils advocate, the alternative is no different. Here you may help research efforts to mitigate the disease.
- rambojazz 7y agoWhat's the point of not telling you if you tested pos or neg? Are they afraid that with your responsible behavior you can spoil the results by not infecting more people? Are they studying how widespread it is at a given point in time, or are they studying how it is spreading?
- MaulingMonkey 7y agoI'd guess that if they tell you the result, they'll bias their volunteer pool towards those who want to know if they're sick - presumably because they've got symptoms - rather than getting a less biased sampling more representative of the average population.
- DanBC 7y agoThey can't tell you your results because you're anonymised.
- robertwiblin 7y agoYou can read your result off the serology test if you like, it'll just look something like this: https://homehealth-uk.com/all-products/coronavirus-test-kit-rapid-covid-19-igg-igm-on-site-professional-testing/ https://homehealth-uk.com/all-products/coronavirus-test-kit-...