As society we need to learn to get better at making policy making evidence based. We need to increase transparency as there are tons of potential conflicts of interests when it comes to public procurement. As taxpayers we need to demand good stewardship of these resources.

#Immensa #COVID19 #Testing #Dantelabs #COVID19Inquiry

I am going to share this as I think there is a much wider point to make. Last year, I studied the #Immensa #Dantelabs #COVID19 testing scandal.

A large #PCR lab basically produced tons of #FalseNegatives -- see my thread from last year:

https://twitter.com/fetzert/status/1460166688423489538

Today the #Inquiry results came out. Wrong equipment settings were to blame. This is what produced the #FalseNegatives.

More importantly, there is now an #Epidemiology paper with *13*
@UKHSA
authors. Let's compare...
@economics

Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 on Twitter

“What is the epidemiological impact of a #falsenegative #COVID test? An important question in a high vaxx/low NPI context, but one that cannot be studied in a experiment for obvious reasons. Enter the UK, a reliable supplier of #naturalexperiments. 🧵⬇️ ➡️https://t.co/Zt0cHz9zoo”

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