Covid 19 reporting app - public webinar

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You may be aware of this reporting app. It's designed to "help slow the spread of COVID-19" by getting users to self report daily, based on a number of relevant factors (age, sex, location, symptoms etc).

HOWEVER, almost straight after releasing the first version of the app which simply asked for users' sex, the developers decided to add a pointless and potentially harmful "gender identity" question with no scientific justification or purpose whatsoever.

Recording someone as a woman [or a man] when they are the opposite sex skews facts and data, because we already know it affects each sex differently. Adding the potential for innocent OR bad faith actors to add error into what should be science-based research is an appalling way to proceed.

If any of the spokeswomen/experts from the various women's groups (Dr Nic? Dr FondofBeetles?) are free, the developers are holding a webinar this Thursday at 2pm BST

I'm sure they will be delighted to explain how knowing who has special womanly feelz will positively impact and add much-needed clarity to their research into this live and brutally fatal pandemic.

zoom.us/webinar/register/6915873908274/WN_X0KrlhfVTE-q7v539VKz8w

Also on same ‘Sex and Gender’ page linked to:

‘Tackling the COVID-19 epidemic requires surveillance, testing and medical data broken down by sex and examined in the context of gender. These data will reveal any differences between men and women in the frequency of infection and the outcomes of illness. Understanding why such differences exist needs research on the biology of the two sexes as well as the social conditions in which they live.’