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?
Inexperience. Poor training. Poor supervision.
Old machinery sometimes dysfunctional.
“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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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 )
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
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”
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.
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
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.