Re:Elizabeth Holmes found guilty
by ghshephard on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @06:38AM
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Well - some of the tests have to be 100% reliable, because medication decisions are made on them, and the incorrect dosage can be harmful. It's not like a cheap $10 antigen tests that has sub 100% specificity and sensitivity - a bunch of the tests were trying to measure particular levels. Theranos was just overall horrible. They were trying to do some tests that were impossible based on the physics of what can be measured by pinprick blood.
Very few tests are 100% reliable, so I would expect that Theranos claims about how the tests where performed would play a significant role in determining the guilt. People where told they would get the perfect magic pixy dust test that worked on one drop of blood instead they got one of the early covid tests that needed at least four repeats to give a "most likely negative" result, unsurprisingly the covid tests also resulted in confused tweets by the one or other VC.