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: Sore throat now top symptom that could be the virus
The Top symptom That could be Covid is a Sore Throat , according to data from 17,500 people Who Said they had tested positive for The Virus This Week .
The Next most common ones reported were headache, blocked nose and cough.
A high temperature or fever and loss of Smell or Taste - ones which the NHS list high up as likely Covid Symptoms - were far less common.
A hoarse Voice , sneezing, tiredness, muscle aches and dizziness scored higher.
The Top 20 Covid Symptoms , in descending order, according to the data from the Zoe App study are:
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The React-1 study has, each month, been sending 150,000 randomly selected people across England swab tests to do At Home .
Findings from That show the Symptoms people have with Covid have changed as the pandemic has evolved.
It could be down to how The Virus has been changing or mutating over time, scientists believe.
Several Covid variants have emerged since the original Wuhan strain, with the latest one being Omicron .
The React-1 researchers, from Imperial College London, say loss of sense of Smell and Taste appears to be less common with this variant. Instead, people are reporting more cold and flu-like Symptoms .
They looked at original Omicron - known as BA. 1 and BA. 2 - That was spreading in March 2022.
Since then, two fast-spreading new subvariants of Omicron called BA. 4 and BA. 5 have dominated, causing more new infections.
An estimated 2. 7 million people in the UK, are thought to have Covid.
Prof Tim Spector , who runs the Zoe Health Study, said: " Covid is still rampant in the population.
" Even if people have had a past infection and are fully vaccinated, people are still catching it.
" Although we all want to make The Most of The Good weather, people will need to decide for themselves whether going to large events, working from The Office or using busy Public Transport is worth The Risk . "
Both the Zoe study and the React-1 study had been funded by the government until recently.
Source of news: bbc.com
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