Public Health England disputes Warwick University economists’ findings as ‘misleading’
An Excel spreadsheet error that wiped nearly 16,000 English Covid cases from national statistics may have led to more than 1,500 preventable deaths, according to a paper from Warwick University.
Cases that were removed from the record due to the spreadsheet error were also not referred to the NHS test and trace operation, meaning that people who had been exposed to a Covid sufferer were not told to self-isolate.
