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This is trivially false. From the linked article:

"When Theranos' machines were rolled out to Walgreens stores in California and Arizona, they gave patients false or flawed results. One patient testified that she was led to believe she was having a miscarriage after taking a Theranos test, when indeed her pregnancy was viable. Another patient thought her cancer had returned when it had not, following a test. But in the end, jurors did not believe that Holmes intentionally deceived patients."

These examples by themselves are clear instances of harm. However, it's not unlikely that more patients were affected and perhaps even some of them took actions that were harmful to their health based on this false data.



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