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    true story: a nurse recorded my grandaughter weight as 6.2 when it was 6 pounds 2 ounces, and we didn't understand why the nurse's calcuations never matched ours until one day she weighed 7.14 and a lightbulb went off. (She did the calculations with pounds and ounces correctly; we were trying to reproduce using her misrecorded numbers.) Commented Feb 17, 2021 at 20:35
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    Agreed. Ultimately, someone may have taken the view that the purpose of these systems is to collect data from medics, not to second-guess them, and a decision was taken not to incorporate any logic whatsoever that nags or purports to second-guess them. You can analyse the data later, and either just dismiss absurd data from consideration, spend the resources necessary to clarify and correct questionable values, or as happened here, just give priority jabs to people who otherwise wouldn't have qualified and let such events of no overall consequence take their course. Commented Feb 17, 2021 at 20:51