By Wavepower, 1634901336
A very interesting article from BBC Inside Science about the possible impact of false-negative PCR Tests from the Wolverhampton laboratory
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0010q9x
A few extracts:
- "Exceptional policies lead to exception outcomes"
(a comment on the fact that Uk are exception in Europe having shed most of the social control measures it had and now is also has an exception level of infections in Europe). - About "14,000 deaths" since 'Freedom Day' in July, 'many' of which could have been prevented had we retained just 'basic' social measures.
- The laboratory produced an estimated 43,000 incorrect negative test results over the 35 days the issues were believed to have occured undetected.
- Clues should have been seen in the data available from the start of September that 'strange things were going on', particularly in the South West - this should have raised alarm bells on several levels.
- There was a clear failure in the Quality Controls that should have in place in that Lab.
- The consequences of the 43,00 false negatives were estimated to have resulted in 'upwards of' 200,000 addditional infections over what would have been expected to have happened had these lab errors not taken place (and this number continues to grow). It goes on to suggest some 500 to 1,000 deaths could have resulted from the errors made in the Laboratory.
Certainly cases in my area of Somerset through the roof in from about the third week of September and continue to remain really high. We are still more than double the infection rate of the highest peak in January, and the current peak is looking like it will be more sustained.
