December 6, 2022
Medscape Nurses reports from Reuters article on Dec 2, “England’s government agency responsible for responding to public health emergencies said mistakes at a testing laboratory led to misreporting of tens of thousands of positive COVID-19 cases as negative and may have resulted in the deaths of about 20 people”.
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The Medscape article continues, “An investigation by the UK’s Health Security Agency (UKHSA) found the Immensa laboratory in central England was found to have misreported around 39,000 tests as negative when they should have been positive between Sept. 2 and Oct. 12 last year.
The cause of the mistakes was the incorrect setting of the threshold levels for reporting positive and negative results of PCR samples for COVID-19, UKHSA said in a report after completing an investigation. The UKHSA said the mistakes could have led to as many as 55,000 additional infections in areas where the false negatives were reported”.
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