ZOE Health Study Reviews

by Ldholdren

ZOEHealthStudy is super easy to use but I think it needs to include additional dataset requests. Given the rate of new cases, adding datasets for testing availability, known incidents of exposure including where that exposure occurred ( work, church, school etc), and what protective measures were being utilized when the exposure occurred (ie mask, social distancing, hand sanitizer, vaccination without any additional measures etc). The only truly accurate way to disseminate false information regarding this virus is through data collection from individual personal experience. Have you lost a friend or family member to Covid/Covid complications, have you had a family member or friend test positive?
In the area we live doctors and nurses aren’t reporting information accurately due to personal and political biases. I’ve been told by countless people that their doctors & healthcare professionals have told them not to get vaccinated, that this isn’t that big of a deal, etc and I experienced the same commentary from emergency room staff in two separate facilities in two separate states , both small town hospitals in dominant politically conservative areas, even though their hospitals are at or over capacity with Covid patients who are critically ill. The line between political beliefs and scientific evidence skewed to support the political belief over scientific evidence to the contrary.

by Diamond*Girl

First, I’m glad there is an app developed for tracking & research of COVID-19. It was simple to set up an account & allowed me to also add a profile for my 90 year old mother. I found the process easy to log in daily with my symptoms (feeling well thankfully at this point). I DO recommend people sign up as it could be helpful in understanding more about the disease & how it spreads. However, they are missing some questions/info that I feel should be asked & included: 1) It should be tracking your potential exposure by monitoring what you’ve been doing/ where you’ve been (I.e., at home, getting outside/exercising, shopping, visiting friends/family, going to work, social distancing or gathering in groups, etc), 2) include symptoms such as lower grade fever and loss of taste & smell 2) asking more specifically when/where you traveled 3)city/county where you live 4) whether you’ve been wearing mask while shopping/going out in public 5) if you do suspect you have COVID-19, have you consulted with a doctor or self-quarantined. Overall, it’s simple & may provide some useful data and worth participating.

by Farmer J On IPad

The intent of ZOEHealthStudy is terrific. It’s well set up and user friendly. Unfortunately. There have been glitches, and no one to report them up to get them fixed. The most frequent is not knowing if it’s actually recording all data. I report faithfully every day. Sometimes I open my account and it says I last reported 2 days ago, as it did tonight. A couple of weeks ago, it said I last reported several days ago. So no way to know if my entries were recorded. I searched to find a contact. Finally found three names, one a Dr Chan in MA. I called the office and left a message about it with my name and contact information, but never heard back. In addition to teaching, they should be getting feedback on accuracy and there’s to way to do it at the user end.

by Samorshad

I find ZOEHealthStudy very easy to use, but have one suggestion for the days when “I’m not feeling quite right”. A week ago, I developed acute, severe shoulder pain. It was bad enough to go to Urgent Care and get checked out. While I waited to be seen, I started to fill out ZOEHealthStudy . Of course I checked the box saying I wasn’t feel great. I expected the series of questions, but I was quite surprised to see no option to let you know that whatever was wrong was in no way related to Covid. I finally quit answering questions because I couldn’t find an option that allowed me to be truthful. After I was back home with a diagnosis of severe rotator cuff calcification tendinitis, I finally found an option that said something like: have seen medical professionals and was not diagnosed with Covid. It would have been nice to see an option far earlier in the questions like: am seeking medical support for ortho, chronic, or other issue not related to (list of C-19 symptoms).

by Sara 8391

I have been using the covid19 symptom tracker daily for about a week. Easy peasy. Happy to provide data for science. Two issues from today’s experience.
1)
Today I was given the option to take a survey of lifestyle activities, which I chose to do. However, part way through, I got stuck. (I believe it was the diet and alcohol consumption page.) I answered all the questions, but ZOEHealthStudy wouldn’t let me proceed, indicating I needed to complete the questions. I reviewed all my answers on that page and found none unanswered and saw no specific indication of which question/answer was not satisfactory. So I backed out of the survey.
2)
I was a little dismayed at the options to either choose to (participate in the survey) or (opt not to AND don’t ask me again). How about an option to not do now but ask me later.

by ChristenNotForgotten

I think many are able to understand physical ways to give back that assist the medical sciences. We applaud those who donate plasma, organs, bone marrow, and blood. We may even understand the concept of being in a drug trial or donating our antibodies for research.

However, my own personal experience trying to share ZOEHealthStudy with my community is that they did not have the same level of competency and preparedness to understand the value of social inquiry to the medical field. Some folks I asked to participate responded with fear ZOEHealthStudy could record their personal lives or track their whereabouts. Advocating for use of ZOEHealthStudy was an eye opening experience for me as someone with a graduate degree from a social research institution of how far we need to go in bringing the public into competency with social research methods.

I would not have downloaded ZOEHealthStudy and would not be participating if the researchers were not vetted, the methods were unsound, or the institutions were not reputable. If that means anything to anyone, I hope it encourages you to please voluntarily participate with the scientific community to help figure this virus out faster than it figures us out. Thank you to those donating their time and symptom feedback for this important work.

by Bay Area Bopper

The data collected through ZOEHealthStudy is already helping to understand this pandemic as well as help inform medical support personnel. As a citizen scientist I value being able to make my data contribution to this understanding even though I am well at the moment. I am the baseline. ZOEHealthStudy is nice because it is easy to access and streamlined in collecting data. I like how it already has the expected default answers, usually “no” as in “I don’t currently have a temperature. Only if I am an exception will I need use the drop down menu for a different response. Takes me less than 5 seconds each day to add my data to the survey. I began taking my temperature every morning a couple of weeks so I will be aware immediately if i have that symptom. Maybe it will help me avoid being put into a life threatening condition.

by DJfromDC

ZOEHealthStudy is so very important for everyone to use. It takes just a few seconds each day - less than a minute to report. I report for three members of my family daily, which takes less than a minute. If ALL of us would contribute just one minute a day to report how we are feeling, we could conquer this virus! ZOEHealthStudy enables a study of where the virus is and how to contain it's spread. We can beat this thing if we will simply join together in the effort. Imagine America safe again. It can happen if we all do our part. Please get ZOEHealthStudy and help yourself and us all!

by Lysa1rn

I have only been on here a few days . I think overall it is a user friendly app. I would like to be able to go back and see if I put all my important info in , but I can’t see that I can do that . There are a few questions, for example fatigue, that I feel there could be an answer in between the 2 choices given . I have shared this hoping more people in my smaller community will see the importance of this .
I missed out on another similar “ study ” following Covid pts long term trying to learn more to gain knowledge , to be able to pinpoint treatment , ect . Thank you for all of you that are working on this , it’s so appreciated!

by Mrblamb

I am contributing to this because I had wondered if any type of research was being done to gather the different symptoms. The only clues I could get about the range of symptoms was from occasional news articles descriptions. I had had a stem cell infusion 12 months ago , and I believe that made my range of symptoms different. I had 2 negative nasal swabs. I felt the stem cells may have made my body’s reaction different. I had nothing but a fever for 3 weeks. Then I began having some respiratory symptoms. My family felt I should stop isolating from them. Somehow the nasal swabs did not pick up the RNA to make my tests positive. But, I didn’t want to take the chance of infecting my family.

by Kate4440

Everyone can help play a small part in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic by downloading ZOEHealthStudy and encouraging others to do the same. It is only though the collective efforts of every citizen and resident of this country that we can effectively as a nation slow the spread of COVID-19.

Like social distancing, contact tracing is a proven method. It’s simple, just download ZOEHealthStudy and make sure your Bluetooth is switched on. Report how you’re feeling each day. Keep your phone with you when around other people or in public spaces. You will get an alert if anyone you’ve been in contact with has tested positive. This early advantage can save lives and prevent further spread of the disease.

Help researchers better understand, track, and contain COVID-19. Every person counts.

by Cin1cin

Research on how this virus attacks on different people and the duration is valuable to have for the future. I highly recommend everyone completing this survey.

As I have an primary immune deficiency, autoimmune pancreatitis and autoimmune hepatitis. These are where your own bodies immune system attacks itself. I also do not produce antibodies to fight off infections. Kind of like the adult version of boy in the bubble.

As I have had several abdominal pains for more than 2 months, my doctors believe I might have COVID-19. Since Monday, April 6: my chest became very tight and breathing became more difficult. I took the test here in West Los Angeles at Veterans Center on Wednesday, April 8. I have still not received any results. So the news is not right. You can’t even call.

by Sarah N.G.

It only takes a couple of minutes to signup and it takes less than a minute of your time daily to help the medical community gain valuable insights into the novel coronavirus. While I have been fortunate enough to not get infected during the pandemic thus far, I have already had family members get extremely ill and I my best friend/soul sister passed away from COVID-19 this past spring. So anything I can do to aid doctors and researchers in being able to understand this virus in greater detail, of course I will do my part. Please also share ZOEHealthStudy with friends and family members around the world because the more people that contribute, the sooner COVID-19 can be fully understood which is half the battle in being able to get this pandemic under control.

by Boomitslyssa

After having COVID I rushed my recovery because I felt physically fine but emotionally I’m a wreck because everyone at work knew I was positive when I got back to work and now I’m having panic attacks when someone won’t listen to what I’m saying because they asked too many questions and didn’t listen to my answer. (I told work they could tell people so that they knew why I was gone and that was a mistake). I just feel like now when I put on my mask and have to go indoors people are looking at me like I’m crazy but I’ve had and done want to get it again and I’m a healthcare worker so I want to help others more than myself. (Super bad paranoia right now). And every morning I get up I still run through the symptoms of COVID so ZOEHealthStudy makes me feel like I’m not crazy cause I’ll hopefully help someone else!

by Mudball Mouse

I have just been participating for 4 days now but I’m still happy to continue. I feel it is important work to do. I have forwarded to several friends in my area in hopes they will participate since we are on the upward curve. I am a healthcare worker who works remotely for now. I have seen an increase in the number of cases presenting to my hospital and see that it is really effecting a large number of the Latino community and these individuals are very sick when they seek treatment. Usually slow to care for all the myriad of reasons underserved populations seek care late. And they are young 18-50 yr age groups and very ill. Most needing hospitalization. So we must do what we can to stop the spread. And this my very small part in helping us as a country move forward. Thanks for your help keep up the great work. And adding additional questions as others have suggested would garner more info.

by TheaterDirectorPW

Even if you healthy please do ZOEHealthStudy

I live in a huge apartment complex in which a man died five day’s before the first official COVID-19 fatality for our county. He wasn’t tested at hospital because hadn’t been out of the country in years, he went in with chest pains & 104 temperature on a Saturday and died on a Monday. His widow shared the horrific details with me on the Wednesday and we hugged etc. Within 8 days I developed symptoms but couldn’t and still can’t get a test. 3 weeks later I find ZOEHealthStudy and I am grateful that data is being collected without bias of location, age, travel history, insurance etc. I believe the biggest exposure and spread of CoViD19 happened a week before my neighbor died when 20,000 people attended Kobe Bryant’s memorial service, they wiped eyes and noses without social distancing for 2 hours in LA Staple Center then majority rode metro & rideshares Uber / lyft after the event. If anyone who was at the memorial service is contemplating getting ZOEHealthStudy please please please do the inquiry

by Stvme

There is no way that I can tell to report a problem with ZOEHealthStudy so I am reporting it here in reviews! Neither on my IPhone or my iPad can I easily put in the date of my COVID text. The date scroll only shows June through December when you are on 2020 (and it does not actually show 2020 - you have to assume it is in the slot before 2021 but it does not show up. Also no actual numbers for dates show up either so you have to scroll through and by trial and error do it several times until you get it right. The first time it asked me the date I gave up after trying several times figuring I would email about the problem but looking all through ZOEHealthStudy , (and even on ZOEHealthStudy support tab on ZOEHealthStudy Store, there is still no way to send an email. So I hope someone sees this and fixes it. I think ZOEHealthStudy is a great idea and I really agree with the idea behind it but it does need to work in order to get accurate data.

by Rickatchue

I was watching the news and caught a quick glimpse of ZOEHealthStudy after a doctor from Mass General Hospital was being interviewed and I quickly went online and downloaded it and started self reporting my symptoms while on a 14 day self quarantine just having returned from A week vacation in London. The Imperial College of London was also working on this tracking app so I really thought it was good to join in! (Seeing as. Probably caught it in London) ZOEHealthStudy helped me feel more secure about what symptoms are common or some even uncommon associated with the COVID 19. I did report a fair number or them and am now feeling as if I have recovered at home so I thank the researchers for allowing us regular folks to share and self monitor ourselves so that during this time alone I did not necessarily feel completely separate and apart from the rest of the human race and even felt good about having been able to lend a hand and play a bit part in helping those much smarter than me to get a little closer to understanding and ultimately solving this global problem.

by FMIDGAD

ZOEHealthStudy a solid COVID-19 tracking application for the insidious COVID virus and the mutated variations of the original. Please everyone, for the love of cotton socks, install ZOEHealthStudy! Attempting to keep up with the virus, the variations there of, those of us with or without vaccinations, is only a part of attempting
To track and eradicate this virus in the United States.
Think about this, there are no holds barred right now anywhere in the US. There are no mandates, quarantines, in the daily updates how many people have Covid are null and void.
The variation has a hold on the United States and nobody’s talking about it, again; action by in action again. All citizens of the United States and others in the United States have the responsibility of caring for your neighbor even if your neighbor does not care for you. This application is one of the only ways to fight back. Because the virus is fighting US and it can win if we do not do the right thing. ZOEHealthStudy is so easy to use please for the love of cotton socks install ZOEHealthStudy and tell your friends neighbors, anybody that will listen to do the same!

by Tsubaki84

From an end user perspective, ZOEHealthStudy is a great tool for researchers. It gives them the ability to safely collect data from huge pool of participants, geographically. It does have its limitations where certain demographics of potential participants are concerned. Some of those limitations are offset, hopefully, by giving participants the ability to report for additional multiple people under individual profiles, though I wonder exactly how effective it may be in reaching those who are living in poverty and/or living in rural areas with little to no Internet access.
Anyway, ZOEHealthStudy is extremely easy to use. Set up and daily use for end users is simple and fast, and I’m personally grateful for the daily push reminders. The only thing I’m confused about is, I thought I read somewhere that it would ask questions about the participants’ nutrition, diet, and exercise, but it did not prompt me to supply that information and I have not seen any place where I could provide it. Overall though, I think this is a great app with a great purpose. Thank you!

by Covid Bat

Stupid app , wasting your time input the data .

by Notraoulnachi

That’s it.

by GeorgesSF

My submission is not correct because you don’t have a back button. While scrolling it selected an answer that wasn’t correct which led me to a different set of questions.

by Anne Mar Effens

It’s a great concept but I couldn’t get past the profile making. The zip code only allows numbers, but UK post codes include letters

by RustyMomma

I wanted so much to join this effort but the screen froze during registering my name and phone

by ElyanoM

I’d like to be able to see the data I’ve entered. And export it (even if it is just print screens) so I can send it/summarise it to house mates, family, doctors etc.

by Dlbjcksn

It would be nice to see the results of the info. I assumed this would be like googles traffic feature and could provide some information after entering your status. Where is the incentive to do this daily and not forget it?

by Tashathewhitecat

Is ZOEHealthStudy for sole use in the U.K., to help NHS only? Can it be used, and the data collected, eg in USA for help the US Healthcare System?

by Carvajalvan

Would like it if there were questions about kids and other household members.

by 56484A5DF0

ZOEHealthStudy is easy to navigate and is a simple way to contribute to coronavirus research

by GameHEADtime

Doesn’t even let me sign up ok....

by Al1324

We are all feeling helpless as we watch this virus spread across the world. Please make ZOEHealthStudy popular internationally. We can make a difference, one data point at a time!!

by Ben4everOK

Seems great to track symptoms based on location when aggressive testing isn’t an option!