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Microsoft Excel blunder: Developers blamed for loss of thousands of COVID-19 test results

Records of nearly 16,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the UK were lost because Public Health England reportedly configured Microsoft's Excel to import CSV files from testing labs into the legacy XLS ...
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Excel: Why using Microsoft's tool caused Covid-19 results to be lost

The badly thought-out use of Microsoft's Excel software was the reason nearly 16,000 coronavirus cases went unreported in England. And it appears that Public Health England (PHE) was to blame, rather ...