£37bn Lost Without Trace?

The NHS (this label seems to have been purely a marketing device, devised when the NHS was held in high regard) Test and Trace scheme for Covid19 cost the UK at least £37 bn. The independent Public Accounts Committee have now concluded (they could hardly do otherwise) that Test and Trace completely failed in its main objective (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/27/nhs-test-and-trace-failed-its-main-objective-says-spending-watchdog). That privately-run fiasco was supposed to cut infection levels with Sars-Cov-2 and help return the UK to normal. The scheme proved to be not very good at testing and especially poor at tracing the contacts of people with viral infections. The privately-run Immensa PCR testing company have now had one of their key members seconded to Test and Trace (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/26/firm-that-gave-43000-false-covid-results-still-processing-pcr-tests). Immensa is the company that managed to return more than 43,000 false negative results to people in South-West England. The company also reported suspiciously low incidences of infections with Covid19 for people in parts of Yorkshire. Government refuses to see a connection between falsely informing people they have tested negative for the virus, and growing infection rates. In spite of its abject failures, Immensa still carries out mandatory PCR tests for people involved in foreign travel between the UK and other parts of the world. We Brits have always prided ourselves on our science. This sorry tale suggests, however, our appointed testers don't know their ar** from their elbow. Private trumps effective.