Coronavirus England: NHS algorithm wrongly identified 430k as ‘high risk’

More than 400,000 people in England were wrongly marked as at high risk from coronavirus because of an over-cautious algorithm. The QCovid algorithm, used to help identify who should be shielding or getting early access to vaccines, automatically put people in the high-risk pile when data was missing, health news site Pulse reported.  If their … Read more