One Single Drop
Cases unlock in order, like levels. This is case 137 of 200.
Palo Alto, California, Friday, 8 am. Aurevia, a startup valued in the billions, promises 200 tests from a single drop of fingertip blood, inside a little white box called the Prism.
On Tuesday, Hattie Delgado, 61, got a cardiac-arrest-level potassiumpotassium A mineral in the blood that the heart and muscles need. Too much or too little in a blood test can be dangerous. result from a Medvale pharmacy. She rushed to the ER, where the same test came back normal. The complaints have not stopped since.
At 9 am the state lab inspection arrives. Last night, someone tidied the place up for it.
Three people knew what the Prism really did. One of them sold the drop as a miracle.
Glass lobby of a Silicon Valley startup, with white Prisma boxes displayed on pedestals.
Suspects
Wendell MarshAurevia lab director, 54
Tessa MoraesAurevia night-shift lab technician, 27
Vivienne StrandAurevia founder and president, 33
The real case
The Silicon Valley startup that promised hundreds of tests from one drop of blood
Palo Alto, California, United States, 2003 to 2018
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