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In Error, Tricare Tells 600K Military Beneficiaries They've had COVID-19

posted by martyb on Tuesday July 28 2020, @08:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the speedy-recovery dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/07/22/error-tricare-tells-600k-beneficiaries-theyve-had-covid-19.html:

More than 600,000 people in Tricare, a health care program of the United States Department of Defense Military Health System, received emails July 17 asking if they would donate blood for research as "survivors of COVID-19."

But just 31,000 people affiliated with the U.S. military have been officially diagnosed with the coronavirus, which prompted confusion, Military.com reported last week.

"Just wondering [if] anybody [got] an email from Tricare saying since you are a COVID survivor, please donate your plasma.?? I have NOT been tested," wrote a beneficiary on Facebook. "Just remember all those people inputting data are human and make mistakes."

The mass email went to every beneficiary located near a collection point.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2020, @03:08PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2020, @03:08PM (#1027650)

    And just as an analogy, how good would your code be if your boss was watching every line you wrote and yelling in your ear at the top of their lungs about each character? We elect people to run our shit and we dont give them the chance to do so because journalism is dead and its now a reality tv show. Has been for twenty years, and this is what we get. We are all doing it to ourselves because we cant deal with the power of the internet. Too many agendas. Its the ultimate commitee. And you know what they say about committees...

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday July 29 2020, @12:14AM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday July 29 2020, @12:14AM (#1027874)

    how good would your code be if your boss was watching every line you wrote and yelling in your ear at the top of their lungs about each character?

    That would be a bottom 1%ile manager, not the kind that I would want running the whole operation.

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