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File format fail behind England’s COVID case underreporting – iTnews
Health agency developers used old Excel .XLS files.
Developers picking a more than 30-year-old file format to store COVID test result data was behind the underreporting of almost 16,000 cases in England, it has emerged.
The missed cases were not discovered until Friday last week.
Public Health England (PHE) collected data from commercial firms that analysed the swab results to see who tested positive or not, and receved the information in files with the values separated by commas.
Using comma separated values (CSV) in files is common practice …
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