#IMMENSA This is eye watering.

All in issue :Staff training, supervision, machinery, safety, lack of SOPS

As one commentator puts it “the sector has become like the Wild West”

Horrified to see DHSC work still being sent to shared Immensa AND Dante Lab at Loughborough
Dr Mark Collery, from Micropathology Ltd, a leading UK laboratory serving more than 200 hospitals across the country, said the Wolverhampton lab was “dangerous” and, in non-Covid times, would have been shut down.
We know from earlier statements that the incident started on 2nd Sept and went on until 11th Oct. (Announced on 15th) That is over 40 days .

Processing c600 tests an hour. x how many hours a day?
7 days a week.

If 8 hrs a day = 4800 a day.

How many machines? Image
Inexperience. Poor training. Poor supervision.

Old machinery sometimes dysfunctional. Image
“The machines themselves, provided by the diagnostics company PerkinElmer, were poorly maintained and often broke down due to overuse.

“When they were non-functioning, they took a while to repair. If a machine was down, it made things even worse,” the source said.
“The lab at Charnwood runs a maintenance protocol for each machine before the beginning of every shift to detect potential issues, the source added, but this wasn’t practised at Wolverhampton. Instead, “they were only running it once a week”.

Bloody hell.
“Air conditioning and humidity control sometimes broke, too, the whistleblower said. “Everything needs to have a temperature control, so if the temperature inside the lab fluctuates because of poor air conditioning or air regulation, that will affect test results.”
“The lab was kept cool by two large industrial air conditioning units which were plugged into an extension socket lead. This meant they “sometime couldn’t handle the load” and were overwhelmed, causing them to break.”
“Employees attempted to raise their concerns over working conditions, quality control measures and the high throughput but were allegedly dismissed by senior management officials, some of whom didn’t have a scientific background.”
“They were also mainly Italian and spoke little English, making communication difficult at times.”

Pile ‘em high…and sell ‘em high.

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30 Oct
Following in from @karamballes review of the JVCI meeting in May prior to the MHRA authorisation of the Pfizer vaccine for over 11 yr olds on June 4th.

Let’s have a look at child cases just to the beginning of October (when they have continued to soar (h/t @Dr_D_Robertson ) Image
Or, based on ONS surveillance from September by which time all adults had been offered vaccination and most if not all had time to be double jabbed .

The horizontal axis. Young on left. Old in the right.

Percentage infected on vertical axis. H/t @PaulMainwood Image
Yet it seems the JVCI made its decision in May in part on the basis that “all adults will be vaccinated and there is a low risk of child to child transmission. Staff and parents will be protected”

Look back again at those charts and think again. Image
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30 Oct
BELGIUM 🇧🇪: This is not looking healthy to me.

9.2k cases is roughly equivalent to 55k cases in the U.K. and, following the relaxation of measures, cases and hospitalisations have been rising rapidly, despite 86% of it adult population (75% of whole pop) being fully vaxxed. Image
Still rising since the Tuesday figures.

Population of over 11k. Image
Cases had increased by 76% and positivity by 2% to 8.6%.

How long before we accept that some measures are the price we pay for safety AND freedoms?

brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-a…
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29 Oct
UK statistics tsar rebukes UKHSA over flawed jabs data

“Those numbers were misleading & wrong & we’ve made it v clear to UKHSA. I’m lost for words at the willingness to publish a table that led people to believe that, with a footnote that was too weak”
ft.com/content/a51f85…
The NIMS v ONS denominator debate continues to hot up with criticism still robust regarding the latest attempt to “correct” by the UKHSA, sticking with NIMS but adding two pages of caveats.

Still the main (wrong) impression is vaccinated more likely to get infected than unvaxxed Image
David Spiegelhalter, chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at Cambridge university, a statistical research institute, said the “minor changes” failed to address the problem.
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29 Oct
Over 43 days up to 12 October, Immensa sent out an estimated 43,000 false-negative PCR tests

‼️About half of them to people in the South West.‼️

The region registered just under 80,000 positive PCR tests in those 43 days, but this should have been 25%⬆️ inews.co.uk/news/health/co…
And where were positivity levels highest in the ONS surveillance in the week ending 22nd Oct…so 7-10 days after the SU was identified?

The South West. 2.6%. About 1 in 40 people. Image
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29 Oct
🚨😡 9.1% of secondary school aged children positive in week ending 22nd October.

That is bloody awful. 1 in 11 ‼️

So is 4.1% in Age 2 and primary age . About 1 in 24.

That’s doubled in a couple of weeks.
And parents age group ⬆️

Least affected are the recent vaxxed ages
And YES the Region in England that has the highest rates?

The one most affected by the IMMENSA LAB fall out

🚨. 2.6% in the South West! Image
South east Wales was also hit pretty badly by the Immensa Lab fallout.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 overall similar to the SW. 1 in 40 testing positive.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1 in 50
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 1 in 75
NI. 1 in 75 ImageImage
Read 5 tweets
29 Oct
CO2 monitors in schools. A useful tool in ventilation, providing they are used intelligently and acted on.

The next challenge is seeing how well they are used and monitored in wide scale use - and as the weather becomes colder and colder.

And how schools will adapt re uniform
Interesting graph here where a teacher was asked to use the CO2 monitor one week and not the other week.

When not used CO2 grows throughout the morning to exceed a 1600 peak but gradually drops off to lunch time. Rises in afternoon to 1200 peak.

Using monitor 400-600 all day Image
I don’t know how this works in schools with non opening windows - esp with recirculating air conditioning.

This was the guidelines for CO2 monitoring Albert levels. Lower than many manufacturer’s factory settings. Image
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