How a Software Error Made Spain's Child COVID-19 Mortality Rate Skyrocket
Image: PIRO4D/pixabay. Government reliance on the manual entrance of COVID-19 data into basic software has caused data errors and civilian confusion across the globe. The UK used a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to track COVID-19 cases – until the high caseload became too large for the software to handle. The maxed-out file stopped loading cases into the government’s system and left more than 15,000 cases behind in the national count. As a result, exposed people were not contact-traced and quarantined, causing an additional 125,000 infections and an estimated 1,500 deaths. One employee’s m...
Source: science.thewire.in