This is an ignorant viewpoint. It&#x27;s not just phobia. If a fingerprick blood test were actually possible it would make a huge win for children. One of my kids needs to get his blood tested for lead ( standard blood test for his age). Good luck trying to get him to hold still while he&#x27;s screaming and fighting and drawing enough blood for a test. It would also be a huge win for premature babies, some of which only have 2oz of blood in their entire system.<p>The sell of Theranos was that you could do a thousand blood tests on a few drops of blood. If you could go to Safeway and get an accurate fingerprick blood test, then you wouldn&#x27;t need a trained specialist to draw blood and collect the blood samples anymore. That&#x27;s a huge win as well.<p>It seems less and less likely that is actually possible but if it were and you could get reliable and accurate results, it would really make a difference. It&#x27;s not just people being scared of needles.