Well off the record, we were doing some work for the military, which we could talk about

off the record.

It was September of 2014.

The New Yorker writer Ken O'Leta was interviewing Elizabeth Holmes at a Chinese restaurant in Palo Alto.

When she dropped a bombshell, Theranos worked for the Department of Defense.

O'Leta wanted to know more.

Elizabeth obliged and dropped a few more breadcrumbs.

When people are wounded and fueled, if you get someone through the doors of an emergency

room within 60 minutes from the point of injury, you have close to the 99% survival rate.

And if you miss that 60 minute window, that's where all of our fatalities curve.

Is it bleeding to death?

Yes, exactly.

You don't get the transfusion, you can't do stabilization, all this kind of stuff.

So if you could, this is off the record, do this type of testing on a meta-back, then it makes

impossible to begin stabilizing people before you can get back to her base.

On a meta-back, Elizabeth seemed to be suggesting that Theranos' blood testing devices were being

used to treat wounded soldiers evacuated from the battlefield by helicopter.

Confused, O'Leta pressed for more details.

I don't understand by what test they could be doing.

If someone is wounded, what are you testing for?

Yeah, so you're doing several things.

If you lost all tags, then you need to do blood typeings, you can start the transfusion.

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