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Hundreds of people were incorrectly told they were negative for COVID-19 by a lab in Sydney, Australia, the BBC reports.
The false-negative results were given over the Christmas season amid skyrocketing cases, according to the report Monday.
The “data processing error” occurred as Australian health officials are reporting a massive backlog in swabbing tests.
The mistake by SydPath lab affected 886 people, but earlier this week, the lab initially only admitted to giving false-negative results to about 400 people on Christmas Day.
The lab has since apologized and said it has switched to more reliable testing methods.
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Madeleine Hubbard joined Just the News as a fast file reporter after working as an editor at Breitbart News.
She previously served as the special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
She also worked at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and other government media agencies.
She graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a BS in journalism and minors in political science and
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