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Reminds me of the excel-bungling during the covid pandemic. >A million-row limit on Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet software may have led to Public Health Englan
by quitit 3y ago
Reminds me of the excel-bungling during the covid pandemic.
>A million-row limit on Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet software may have led to Public Health England misplacing nearly 16,000 Covid test results, it is understood. The data error, which led to 15,841 positive tests being left off the official daily figures, means than 50,000 potentially infectious people may have been missed by contact tracers and not told to self-isolate.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/05/how-excel-may-have-caused-loss-of-16000-covid-tests-in-england https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/05/how-excel-m...