Tim Spector
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 66 |
| Spouse | Veronique Bataille |
| Official site | tim-spector.co.uk |
| Affiliations | King's College London |
| Education | University of London |
| Interests | Medicine |
| Genetics | |
| Nutrition | |
| Microbiome | |
| Date of birth | January 1,1958 |
| Born | North London |
| London | |
| Nationality | British |
| Awards | Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences |
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| ID | 754444 |
Tim Spector Life story
Timothy David Spector OBE FMedSci is a British epidemiologist, medical doctor, and science writer.
Could ultra-processed foods be harmful for us?
... Prof Tim Spector, is a professor of epidemiology at King s College London, who studies trends in disease...
Covid: Sore throat now top symptom that could be the virus
... Prof Tim Spector, who runs the Zoe Health Study, said: " Covid is still rampant in the population...
Covid: Nine new symptoms added to official list
... Prof Tim Spector, from King s College London, has been campaigning for an expanded list of symptoms because of data from people tracking their symptoms in the Zoe Covid-19 app...
Zoe Covid-tracking app loses government funding
... Co-founder of the Zoe Covid study app, Prof Tim Spector, The app had received more than £5m in grants from the UK s Health Security Agency (UKHSA)...
Covid: Rules relaxed in Wales and Scotland, but should the Omicron plateau worry us?
... Should we be worried by the plateau in Omicron cases? The fall in Covid cases seen since early January has come to a halt, But how concerning is this? The good news, Prof Tim Spector of the Zoe Covid study says, is that most infections in the vaccinated are " mild" which should keep the numbers ending up in hospital and dying low...
Half of colds will be Covid, warn UK researchers
... If you have cold-like symptoms, get a Covid test, says lead scientists Prof Tim Spector...
Coronavirus: Are loss of smell and taste are the main symptoms?
... lead researcher Professor Tim Spector said: to be When taken in combination with other symptoms, people with loss of smell and taste appear, three times more likely to contract Covid-19 isolate according to our data, and therefore, should be self-reducing for seven days, the spread of the disease...
Covid: Nine new symptoms added to official list
The official list of Covid symptoms has been expanded to include another nine signs of a coronavirus infection.
The UK Health Security Agency's including a Sore Throat , muscle pains and diarrhoea.
The Move comes More Than two years into the pandemic, and just days after free testing ended in England.
However, many of the new symptoms " are very similar" to those for colds and flu.
The original signs of a Covid infection that were recognised in the UK were:
It was known from the early days of the pandemic that this trio was just the tip of The Iceberg . The World Health Organization and other countries, including the US, have used a longer list of symptoms for some time.
However, there has been debate in the UK about precisely which symptoms should be recognised and qualify somebody for a Covid test.
A headache is a known symptom of Covid, but you might not want to test everybody with one, as there are so many other causes.
Fever, cough or loss of sense of smell or taste were settled on, because they were either present in most Covid cases or almost exclusively caused by The Virus .
But now The List of symptoms includes a further nine:
in the UK, with 4. 9 million people (about one in 13 of us) testing positive for The Virus . Free testing for Most People in England ended last week.
The NHS says people should stay At Home and avoid others Only If you have Covid symptoms and a high temperature, or if your symptoms are so bad that you are not well enough to work.
Prof Tim Spector , from King's College London, has been campaigning for an expanded list of symptoms because of data from people tracking their symptoms in the Zoe Covid-19 app.
He Said : " Main symptoms of coronavirus have finally changed after two years of Lobbying . . hurrah. "
Source of news: bbc.com
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