Slow start and flawed decisions in Britain’s coronavirus testing have cost lives, warn health leaders

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Slow start and flawed decisions in Britain’s coronavirus testing have cost lives, warn health leaders
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Investigation: A fatally slow start. An opaque decision to build a new lab network. A High Court battle over ‘flawed’ software. And when the Health Secretary declared success in hitting his testing target, lab staff simply felt ‘upset’ at the blatant boost from home tests. Now this system is being expanded at a cost of billions. Insiders tell Shaun Lintern how failures have already cost lives, and why urgent improvements are needed before a second wave

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