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Government Admits it's been Double Counting Tests Embarrassing story in the Guardian today. The Government has quietly wiped 1.3 million COVID-19 swabs off the official testing count. This was disclosed on the Department for Health and Social Care's (DHSC) website on Wednesday. Under a section entitled "Adjustments to the historical ‘tests made available’ data" it said: An adjustment of -1,308,071 has been made to the historic data for the ‘tests made available’ metric.The adjustments have been made as a result of more accurate data collection and reporting processes recently being adopted within pillar 2 and a subsequent recalibration of the data we reported between 29 March 2020 and 11 August 2020.These new data processed identified tests that had previously not been readily identifiable at the labs processing stage, and tests that had been sent out by a testing channel on behalf of another channel.This resulted in a double-counting of test kits that had been dispatched and which had not been removed from the labs processed data.In identifying this data pillar 2 established that fewer in-person tests had been conducted than originally reported, and more tests had been sent to NHS trusts and care homes than originally reported. The Guardian has rung up a few of the Government's criticisms, including a shadow health spokesman, and assembled a choice collection of quotes. ...
