Foolish lab blunders led to 23 deaths & thousands of Covid infections, report estimates

BLUNDERS at a Covid test lab led to 23 deaths, 680 hospital admissions and 55,000 infections, a report estimates. Machines were wrongly calibrated in September and October 2021. 1 Errors surrounding test and trace mostly affected people in the South West Credit: Getty The probe by the UK Health Security Agency found the virus threshold was too high so 39,000 positive results were wrongly classed negative. Errors mostly affected people in the South West. The Sun revealed staff were slacking off and playing footie while on shift at Wolverhampton’s Immensa Test & Trace lab — nine months before it emerged… Read Full Article