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Only hurt wealthy investors? What about people who received incorrect testing results, like the woman who was given a false-positive HIV result and the woman who was incorrectly told that she was miscarrying?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/theranos-results... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/11/theranos-gave-wo...

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They certainly got a scare, but it's hard to see that they were harmed.

Generally, when one gets a scary result from a test, another test is done to confirm.

The false negatives would have been a better example.

True. But when I've gotten negative test results, I'm well aware that they aren't a guarantee of anything.

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