Any reasonable checks should have noticed the reported positivity rate dropping to basically zero when the general rate around the country was much higher.
Also, before anyone suggests that the NHS should have processed 100% of tests themselves – we peaked at over 730,000 PCR tests taken in one day as a country and the NHS’s internal capacity peaked at around 120,000 tests per day from what I remember.
I hope there is a clear way to charge them for this. September 2021 is not March 2020 they knew what they were doing at that point.
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Government money should always come with real consquences when companies getting it messed, and people die. It should happen without Government money as well.
And from this source:
“Immensa was awarded a £119million contract in October 2020 to urgently ‘develop volume for PCR testing for Covid’.
It was not put out to tender under rules allowing urgent responses to the pandemic, meaning other companies did not have a chance to bid.
Another £50million was awarded to Immensa by the Government for additional PCR testing last summer.
The company, owned by Harvard University-educated Andrea Riposati, was only set up in May 2020, months before it was awarded the first deal by the then health secretary Matt Hancock.”
> Reports in The Sun at the time featured footage of staff at the lab appearing to fight, drink alcohol and play football.
Sounds like they did not hire people with science backgrounds or who had ever worked in professional testing labs (NHS or private). They appear to have hired anybody they could have and this led to some very basic errors, most likely during sample handling and preparation, that any competent scientist would have avoided. It’s pure negligence on the provider’s part, but nothing will come from it as usual.
Another lab run by unqualified staff pretending to be Biomedical scientists ? https://www.hcpc-uk.org/concerns/what-we-investigate/misuse-of-title/ nobody seems to have been prosecuted but it is a crime.
Did they even have UKAS accreditation?
Do they even know which iso standard they were ment to adhere to ?
Covid testing has been a mess from start to finish and the government has allowed it to happen and even put policy in play to prevent it being don’t properly.
Few things we know about already
Excel spreadsheets being used to keep records of patient results.
NHS trusts not allowed to test the public only allowed to test inpatient and staff.
Pipette tips reused on multiple patient samples.
The IBMS put out this statement as the government started building the testing centres nobody can argue we didn’t see it coming.
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UKHSA should sue them for negligence.
Any reasonable checks should have noticed the reported positivity rate dropping to basically zero when the general rate around the country was much higher.
Also, before anyone suggests that the NHS should have processed 100% of tests themselves – we peaked at over 730,000 PCR tests taken in one day as a country and the NHS’s internal capacity peaked at around 120,000 tests per day from what I remember.
I hope there is a clear way to charge them for this. September 2021 is not March 2020 they knew what they were doing at that point.
​
Government money should always come with real consquences when companies getting it messed, and people die. It should happen without Government money as well.
And from this source:
“Immensa was awarded a £119million contract in October 2020 to urgently ‘develop volume for PCR testing for Covid’.
It was not put out to tender under rules allowing urgent responses to the pandemic, meaning other companies did not have a chance to bid.
Another £50million was awarded to Immensa by the Government for additional PCR testing last summer.
The company, owned by Harvard University-educated Andrea Riposati, was only set up in May 2020, months before it was awarded the first deal by the then health secretary Matt Hancock.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11481771/Blunder-COVID-lab-linked-deaths-20-people-investigators-say.html
Dodgy as hell
Not sure why but the article doesn’t link to the Government report.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/serious-untoward-incident-investigation-immensa-health-clinic-limited
> Reports in The Sun at the time featured footage of staff at the lab appearing to fight, drink alcohol and play football.
Sounds like they did not hire people with science backgrounds or who had ever worked in professional testing labs (NHS or private). They appear to have hired anybody they could have and this led to some very basic errors, most likely during sample handling and preparation, that any competent scientist would have avoided. It’s pure negligence on the provider’s part, but nothing will come from it as usual.
Another lab run by unqualified staff pretending to be Biomedical scientists ?
https://www.hcpc-uk.org/concerns/what-we-investigate/misuse-of-title/ nobody seems to have been prosecuted but it is a crime.
Did they even have UKAS accreditation?
Do they even know which iso standard they were ment to adhere to ?
Covid testing has been a mess from start to finish and the government has allowed it to happen and even put policy in play to prevent it being don’t properly.
Few things we know about already
Excel spreadsheets being used to keep records of patient results.
NHS trusts not allowed to test the public only allowed to test inpatient and staff.
Pipette tips reused on multiple patient samples.
The IBMS put out this statement as the government started building the testing centres nobody can argue we didn’t see it coming.
https://www.ibms.org/resources/news/the-uk-must-avoid-a-wild-west-testing-scenario/