Testing has been suspended at a lab in Wolverhampton that’s been given £120 million by the Government after an investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority found that workers at the lab were filmed fighting and apparently drinking while on shift in January. The regulator fears that up to 45,000 infected people might have been wrongly given the all clear. MailOnline has more.
Immensa Health Clinic – awarded a £120million Government deal – is responsible for prosessing PCR tests taken at sites based mainly in the South West.
But an investigation has found swabs sent to the lab may have been checked incorrectly since September 8, with infected Britons told they do not have the virus.
Health chiefs said it had analysed more than 400,000 swabs since early last month, but the vast majority of these would have been negative.
People who may have been given an incorrect result will be contacted in the coming days and asked to take another PCR test. Samples are being redirected to other laboratories.
There are no technical issues with test kits themselves and people should continue to test as normal, officials said.
West Berkshire council today urged everyone who got tested at one site in its area between October 3rd and 12th to get a second PCR test.
It comes after workers at the lab on Wolverhampton University science park were filmed fighting and apparently drinking while on shift in January.
There are concerns failures at the lab may be linked to a rising number of reports of faulty lateral flow tests in England. …
Dr Will Welfare, the public health incident director at the UK Health Security Agency which replaced Public Health England, said an investigation had revealed concerns over the way the lab was analysing swabs.
He said in a statement: “We have recently seen a rising number of positive LFD results subsequently testing negative on PCR.
“As a result of our investigation, we are working with NHS Test and Trace and the company to determine the laboratory technical issues which have led to inaccurate PCR results being issued to people.
“We have immediately suspended testing at this laboratory while we continue the investigation.”
He added: “There is no evidence of any faults with LFD or PCR test kits themselves and the public should remain confident in using them and in other laboratory services currently provided.
“If you get a positive LFD test, it’s important to make sure that you then get a follow up PCR test to confirm you have COVID-19. If you have symptoms of COVID-19, self-isolate and take a PCR test.”
Professor Alan McNally, a geneticist at Birmingham University, warned that this could be just the “tip of a rather large iceberg”.
Immensa Health Clinic won a £119 million Government contract in November last year to carry out PCR tests.
This was not put out to tender, meaning other companies did not have a chance to bid for the deal.
Worth reading in full.
This isn’t the first time a PCR lab in receipt of tens of millions of pounds of Government money has been exposed as not fit for purpose. The Daily Sceptic ran a piece by a whistleblower about shortcomings at a Lighthouse Lab in Milton Keynes last November.
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But note the spin :
“The regulator fears that up to 45,000 infected people might have been wrongly given the all clear.”
Who gives a toss? They don’t even know what the term ‘infected’ means.
My own spin:
The ‘professionals’ paid to analyse test swabs are not qualified to do so and any result, positive or negative, is therefore void.
That was exactly my first thought.
Quite! That was my first thought as well. If the lab was checking for cancer then any lax practices would be a big deal, but for Covid (however defined) – as you say, who gives a toss!
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“Oh no! Anyway.”
Super efficient central planning strikes again …
Matt Hancock strikes again…
I think this is the regulator finally being able to regulate.
It was only this summer that PCR testing labs needed their UKAS accreditation to continue operating, and obtaining that certification is a quite onerous process which shows a thorough commitment to standards and processes. Labs need to prove they are clean, safe and reliable and need to send evidence that they are using the right sets of control samples in each run and can easily find and remediate contamination.
Expect more of the cowboy outfits to be exposed in the next few months.
The whole testing business is a cowboy scheme run by cowboys.
Indeed, and its purpose is not to protect public health but to perpetuate the Big Lie
I think of them more as pirates. Take what you can, give nothing back.
If only to hide their own incompetence thus far.
Did the Regulator do the filming or a dissatisfied employee?
I’d rather expect UKAS to be told that things now work the way that things now work.
Something doesn’t ring true: Dr Will Welfare for public health.
Yes, my thought exactly, still taking the piss.
Seems to be a real person – https://twitter.com/WillWelfare
Willie Wavaround the Health Secretary
Buster Business the Chancellor
Ivor Spiffing-Wheeze the PM…
Which roles would be suitable for Wayne Kerr and Ben Dover?
The Health Secretary: “It’s only a little prick!”
His picture seems to indicate that he has a problem with his spine.
Which made me wonder whether UKHSA staff and contractors are required to be vaccinated, and vaccinated for everything going. Can one be obese and still work for the agency or are they all pictures of health who never burden the sainted NHS, public health athletes if you like…
Made up name…..
There are occasionally some very body appropriate names.
At the hospital where I worked many years ago, there was a trainee doctor called Dr.Kneebone. I kid ye not.
He may or may not have been this guy:
Roger Lister Kneebone is British professor of surgical education at Imperial College London.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Kneebone
(I think not, as his bio doesn’t match up)
Who cares? Mass testing is bollocks, not needed, part of the mechanism of oppression.
Would they have been investigated if they had produced 45.000 positive results?
So?
Nobody has died, have they?
Well, we can’t know for sure but there has been no reported ‘surge’ of deaths as a result so I would suggest nothing has happened over and above what was going to happen anyway.
ABSOLUTELY.
The only visible rise in deaths seems to be the all-cause mortality figures, incl. younger age groups. They are less likely to be dying because their cancer or kidney disease was diagnosed too late after the NHS went on a go-slow in 2020.
Goodness me, I wonder what could be causing that … did they have a medical treatment that overall did them more harm than good?
Will most of today’s sports records now stand for all time? If athletes are slightly disabled by being coerced into medical treatment they didn’t need, they’re unlikely to run 100 m quite as fast or lift quite such heavy weights or serve so fast, are they?
Or maybe enough of them will resist the tyranny like Djokovic was doing.
‘Incorrect’ defined as negative. ‘No technical issues’ except same as with them all.
Didn’t manage to get a positive first time so try again to ramp up numbers in time for lock-up this autumn.
Not surprising staff treated whole thing as a farce.
Apropos the John Lewis advert mentioned in an earlier thread.
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Surely the workers “fighting” etc in January and the current suspension are not related? The details given in the Mail article do not suggest they are. It is interesting that Dr Welfare refers to “concerns over the way the lab was analysing swabs”. I wonder if they simply had the PCR cycle rate set at a rational lower rate than the nonsensical rate they were instructed to use.
Just heard some ‘expert’ on Jeremy Vine saying that the reason why the PCR results had to be questioned was that a notable number of people who received positive LFT results in certain areas were getting negative PCR results. In his words, “in general you are more likely to get a false negative from a PCR than a false positive from an LFT so you have to question the PCR results”. Surely the logic of this begs the question: why bother undergoing a confirmatory PCR test at all?
also…
Why would KFT be more accurate than PCR when comparing?
He just assumes the LFT is correct as it gives them the answer they want.
examining chicken entrails would give a more accurate result
That argument has been running since tests were introduced.
Nothing is changing.
That’s not an argument. It just means Only positive results are relevant.
Taking this as granted, it obviously implies that vast numbers of people have been wrongly told they weren’t infected with Sars-CoV2 all the time. Because of this, they didn’t isolate when they should have been isolating. Considering that – so far – each testable prediction of numbers of anything spiralling out of control quickly has been wrong, the conclusion is that isolation doesn’t accomplish anything.
It would be laughable if it wasn’t so f***ing infuriating.
Might as well just toss a coin to determine if you are ‘infected’.
The PCR test is a coin toss.
Kind of my point, with the added bonus of not costing the taxpayer £millions.
Even if you test negative but think you might have symptoms current advice is to isolate anyway, ie skive off work.
Hair raising? Really?
People drinking at work? Not taking their work seriously, doing a crappy job?
That happens everywhere. More so in government run operations that have been set up on the hoof.
I’ll tell you what’s hair raising – discriminating against unjabbed returning travellers.
That old saying “if you pay peanuts . . .”
The owners/management will be raking in a fortune but the workforce will be on minimum wage/no fixed hours.
A lot of the PCR testing companies are run by scammers such as Faisal of Halifax. Put them in black plastic bin bags, sling ’em out the window into the yard, take the money and do a midnight flit.
Covid-19 is just a heist really isn’t it.
Of power as well as money
Check out the company director, Andrea Riposati…
Indeed. An Italian living in England according to Companies House. According to LinkedIn he is CEO of Dante Labs in New York; he has worked in the USA since 2008. Certainly a liar, as you cannot live in the USA and UK at the same time.
Given that results from PCR are meaningless as a method of diagnosing any disease even under ideal circumstances who cares?
How about this:
‘The regulator fears that up to 45,000
infecteduninfected people might have been wrongly giventhe all cleara positive result.’One can only dream of such a sentence!
I wonder if the Government/pharma have decided if this will be a covid only year or if they want the flu to make a comeback?
They will need to let the PCR men know well in advance so they set the PCR tests to the ‘correct’ cycle threshold.
At their false positive rate of 95% due to ct40 being (ab)used, that leaves around 2000 at most. A while ago, with no discernible effect.
If anything, it proves how medically pointless the whole PCR test e always was, is and will be.
The PCR test is highly accurate at detecting a fragment of the gene sequence SARS-CoV-2 ONLY IF the testing lab has scrupulous controls to stop contamination resulting in false positives. The lab is highly incompetent if they produce so many false negatives.
What it doesn’t detect is if the virus is viable or not (ie is the person infectious) and that can only be done in a wet lab and cell culture.
It has never been shown to test positive for other coronaviruses or inanimate objects in a scientific test, it is only hearsay. The PCR test is very, very specific in what it tests for.
The amplification or CT rate stops immediately when a positive result is achieved.
They may be designated to go up to 45 amplifications but taking the UK ONS Infection Survey as an example the vast, vast majority of positive results are achieved before 35 amplifications and there are NO positive results after 37 amplifications.
The first 10% of cases are positive at around an 18 CT rate, 25% of positives at around a 24 CT rate, 50% around a 31 CT rate, 75% around a 33 CT rate and 90% around a 34 CT rate.
It is governments who decide not to differentiate between the infectious and the possibly 60% who are not infectious in the UK (85% to 90% in the US), it is not a fault with the PCR test or most scientists. The scientists advising governments are the ones who are at fault.
There’s no proof for any false negatives. Just a proof of disagreement between PCR and LFT someone doesn’t want to be possible. And some spinning of perfectly harmless stories such as people being asleep, playing football or throwing snowballs. None of which being capable of changing the outcome of a PCR test on its own.
This is really just a seriously poor rehash of the earlier overly lax lab procedure possibly responsible for false positives due to swab cross-contamination story. Except that that involved evidence of behaviour actually capable of leading to swab contamination. And this one doesn’t.
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Government Ministers have announced a major restructuring of the NHS
A spokesperson announced ‘The past twenty months have provided many challenges for the NHS, it’s staff and customers. Waiting times have reached record levels ahead of the winter crisis. We acknowledge that these strains occur annually and the public expects Ministers to be creative and innovative in addressing these very real concerns. Therefore from 1st November the NHS will be split into two separate stand alone entities which will be
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To save others trying, the link doesn’t work, or at least it didn’t for me.
read it again
I did read your post. OK, so I assume the link was a joke. I thought your post was a spoof piece that came from that site. Apologies for being so thick.
Oh dear!
The great grey green greasy Limpopo river! Love it. Hope they pay their taxes
If it’s green it’ll get subsidised with taxpayer’s money
I don’t appreciate this type of time-wasting con-trick, that said, you say this in jest but don’t tempt fate, nothing is beyond Tories enriching themselves.
Lighten up! Sometimes we need to laugh or have you forgotten how to!
thousands complained they tested positive with lateral flows only to get a negative result from the gold-standard PCR process.
And that’s literally all of it: People expected to get a positive PCR result after a positive LFT. But they didn’t. Hence, something must have been wrong with the testing procedure. There’s no real world proof for that. But people have reportedly been involved and they threw snowballs at walls!
As I already wrote elsewhere: A better headline: West Berks PCR lab having trouble to meet positive quote in national effort to maintain the notion of an ongoing pandemic by intensified testing of healthy people. Asks for past volunteers to come forward again to help.
This was also a widespread phenomenon in Germany – not for PCR labs, but for the lateral flow testing sites – many of them have invoiced without performing any tests. Basically they simply stole government money (and also those who have done the “free” tests, overcharged the government like crazy).
The outcry should not be about stupid PCR test results, the outcry should be about embezzlement of taxpayers’ funds on a grand scale never known before. A fool and his money are soon parted. Unfortunately, when government is at work, YOU are the fool.
The only thing worse than a public monopoly is probably a private monopoly. The past 40 years has seen a lot of government functions contracted out to private companies, some of which have market shares of 80-90%, not say 15%. Competition doesn’t work if one company can squash all its competitors like that.
Also social media like Google, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Linked-In have become near-monopolies. If there were competing search engines or video-sharing sites of the same size, people who were appalled at the Linked-In censorship could move to another professional network. (M.soft owns Linked-In.)
I won’t even start discussing Amazon …
Government is a “natural” monopoly capable of directly threatening you with violence. Because of that I doubt if the private monopolies are really worse. Theoretically, they should be because they are not democratically elected. But practically neither is the government – these days I consider the government nothing more than armed enforcers of the big corporate interests. So basically they are in the same boat and act exactly the same toward weaker parties.
You wouldn’t really want Zahawi’s horses to shiver in their stables, would you? OK, so he used your money for the heating, but England is a nation of animal lovers, right?
Dr Will Welfare States !!! boom boom
“checked incorrectly since September 8, “
“contacted in the coming days and asked to take another PCR test.”
Why? if the the test should have been positive then by now they’d be dead, recovered or didn’t have it.
They never made it into the official positive count. The game is still to maintain the illusion of a deadly pandemic by manically testing everyone who agrees with that.
The way the graph has been created is a bit complicated. I’ll gladly explain this if someone wants to know it.
MP stabbed, that’s the news cycle decided for the foreseeable.
Wonder what the motivation was?
Apologies if this has been mentioned already.
Zerohedge are reporting that Tory MP David Amess has been stabbed multiple times at a constituency surgery in Essex.
Nothing so far on UK news media…….
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/conservative-uk-lawmaker-david-amess-stabbed-multiple-times-essex-church
It’s front page on the Telegraph
He has since died at the scene.
Of Covid.
How long before a far right terrorist antivaxer covid denier is blamed? I can’t help but think that this is going to trigger even greater restrictions on civil liberties.
seems a somali has been blamed, apparently the last thing David would have wanted is fundamental change to the way MPs do their jobs.
As usual, it’s “follow the money” time again.
It’s taken them 9 months to properly check all this?
Nobody checked anything. There was a Panorama report uncovering shambolic work practices at government-paid test labs very likely causing false positives. False positives are not something that’s supposed to exist. Hence, a counter-story about perfectly random shit (like people playing football during a break — nobody claimed they should have been working instead at that time) was associated with false negatives one of the usual suspects asserted simply must exist in huger numbers because … eh … We really want that !!1. The gets false positives out of the limelight and will hopefully terrify the already terrified yet more as not even a negative test results can be trusted: The cruel and cunning virus out there To Get Us All !!!!! is still lurking everythere … !!!!
A sensible way to handle the clown who made the claim about the more likely vs less likely on tele would be to hit or kick him until he stops talking. There can be now presumption of an innocent transgression here anymore: The intent is to come up with lies supposed to harm innocent other people.
Rumour had it that a lab tech running a small department at one particular private lab didn’t bother analysing HIV samples, and just reported made-up test results.
NHS labs should have been given extra funding to run the covid tests, not these unregulated private labs.
From my personal experience, the NHS labs may suffer from the inability to sack staff without going through long-winded disciplinary procedures, but they care more about quality control and reputation than money and profit. The staff have to be properly trained, as there are various regulatory bodies that oversee them, as well as hospital management breathing down their necks.
I’m not the least bit surprised that these private labs are not fit for purpose.
“The regulator fears that up to 45,000 infected people might have been wrongly given the all clear.”
That’s good news, isn’t it? All have to be tested again. The Government certainly seems to like dishing out the millions of £ to its friends. it’s very easy to spend someone else’s money.
And where is Boris now? Spaffing it up at his mate’s luxury villa in Spain. In the middle of a ‘pandemic’.
“up to 45,000 infected people might have been wrongly given the all clear”
So, clearly there was a massive spike in COVID as a result?
Was no one wrongly told to isolate?
“up to 45,000 infected people might have been wrongly given the all clear”…and as a result we all died. Or not.
“The regulator fears that up to 45,000 infected people might have been wrongly given the all clear.”
Vice-versa I would suggest.
Some clinic ownership details have already been mentioned here, but below is a link to the UK Companies House site details for “Immensa Health Clinic Ltd.” – note it was only started in May 2020.
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12608585/filing-history
That companies performing mass-PCR-testing didn’t exist before the government chose to sink a real lot of money in this is unsurprising. This is also essentially a distraction. The basic claim is still (simplified) Someone was filmed kicking a football nine months ago. Therefore, a lot of test results we really don’t like from the past fortnight are probably wrong.
You have to be an ‘expert’ to get away with something like that.