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by whbk 3637 days ago
Agreed - she should be imprisoned. You don't get to play with lives.
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I think that's the problem. It hasn't been linked to deaths yet. I fear it might be impossible to link a ~year of invalidated blood testing as the cause of death.

Did Theranos test for fatal diseases? Did they just test for mundane stuff?

> I fear it might be impossible to link a ~year of invalidated blood testing as the cause of death.

I can only see one way this happened. Someone got a false negative. They would have gone to another lab but chose Theranos based on marketing claims. They get tested now and see their positive result for a terminal condition they can no longer treat.