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UK Covid-19 Track & Trace Excel snafu: Uncontrolled spreadsheets lead to data loss

Posted on Oct 13, 2020 by Patrick O'Beirne, Excel/VBA developer

The story broke around October 5th that Public Health England temporarily lost 16,000 Covid test results because they did not notice that the XLS data format they were using was insufficient to process the number of results they were getting. … Continue reading →

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