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. 2023 Oct 5;52(5):e263-e272.
doi: 10.1093/ije/dyad087.

Cohort Profile: Virus Watch-understanding community incidence, symptom profiles and transmission of COVID-19 in relation to population movement and behaviour

Thomas Byrne  1 , Jana Kovar  1 , Sarah Beale  1   2 , Isobel Braithwaite  1 , Ellen Fragaszy  2   3 , Wing Lam Erica Fong  1 , Cyril Geismar  1   4 , Susan Hoskins  2 , Annalan M D Navaratnam  1   2 , Vincent Nguyen  1   2 , Parth Patel  1 , Madhumita Shrotri  1 , Alexei Yavlinsky  1 , Pia Hardelid  5 , Linda Wijlaars  5 , Eleni Nastouli  5   6   7 , Moira Spyer  6 , Anna Aryee  1 , Ingemar Cox  8 , Vasileios Lampos  8 , Rachel A Mckendry  9 , Tao Cheng  10 , Anne M Johnson  11 , Susan Michie  12 , Jo Gibbs  13 , Richard Gilson  13 , Alison Rodger  13   14 , Ibrahim Abubakar  13 , Andrew Hayward  2 , Robert W Aldridge  1
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Cohort Profile: Virus Watch-understanding community incidence, symptom profiles and transmission of COVID-19 in relation to population movement and behaviour

Thomas Byrne et al. Int J Epidemiol. .
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Conflict of interest statement

A.C.H. serves on the UK New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group. A.M.J. is Chair of the Committee for Strategic Coordination for Health of the Public Research.

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Figure 1
Cumulative participant recruitment from 24 June 2020 to 22 March 2022, by method of recruitment
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Figure 2
Count of survey completions by week since the start of Virus Watch recruitment (June 2020 to March 2022) showing recruitment (total number of participants who completed at least one survey) and retention (total number of participants who completed the latest survey for a given week)
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