Coronavirus Discussion

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Although we have a machine I tend to rely on the Doctor as well. If he smiles and is happy so am am I. Keep taking the pills!!! My Doctor still uses the old fashioned Mercury blood pressure monitor and stethoscope although others have the automatic ones.

David

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Oh dear. It would appear that the NHS covid tracking app which was on trial in I-O-W has been abandoned and we are now going to use the apple and google based technology instead. 

That's the problem with "world beating systems". They're inconsistent and let you down.

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Probably use the same IT outfit as CAMC.

And me even less so, as I take nowt! Blood pressure gets checked occasionally, either at home or on the very odd occasion that I am called into the doctor's, and I can't remember when the last time that occurred.

It does seem to be a major error. The split between Android and Apple phone operating systems in the UK is about 50/50. Apple may well connect very well with its own products but the way it is designed, whether accidentally or on purpose does not allow it to work well with other systems. One would have thought that this would have been known about before embarking of such a program? Perhaps they had seen that Android and Apple had already co-operated on a similar App and assumed their's would work as well? Perhaps it was the Bluetooth element that did not work so well. I know that sometimes my Android phone does not automatically pair with my car all the time.

David

The Apple system didn't locate closely enough (I think that's what I heard.) Android fared better. I'm surprised this wasn't researched much earlier!