Dr. Fauci says this security measure COVID is "notorious inaccurate"
The best medical advisor indicates that even warmer summer time can make this practice useless.
Our attempts to stop the propagation of coronaviruses have changed everyday life as we knew it in early March. Whether it's a face mask when it is in public, not being able to eat inside or not to wash your hands obsessively, we have been urged that our modified reality is the Best way to stop the pandemic. However, medical experts have called new tactics as ineffective, especially temperature controls as a means ofRooting pride and contagious carriers. In fact, according toAnthony Fauci, MD,The temperature controls are "notorious inaccurate".
At a recent event at the National Medical Center of Walter Reed National Reed, the Director of the National Institute of Allegations and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) rejected many school directors ofUse of non-contact frontal thermometers To protect the children back in the classes of this fall, according to ABC News.
Fauci even says national health institutes (NIH) and the White House have abandoned the screening procedure. "We found the NIH, that it's a lot better to answer people when they enter and save time," he said. In fact, Fuci said that its own temperature had been shown as high as 103 degrees recently due to spending time during the hot summer time.
And Fauci is far from the first medical expert toCall temperature controls to be inaccurate.James Hamblin, MD, has recently written inAtlantic that the safety measure "does more harm than well," since a lotContagious people do not have a fever. "The practice is a kind of spraying in the sides of the buildings, to shower football players by hand disinfecting or deep cleaning an office mat," wrote hamblin. "These things could make us feel safer, but they do not prevent us from protecting if they actually let us leave our guard."
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Then there is the question of high temperatures that may not be the result of coronaviruses, such as Fauci's "fever". Many health problems can cause fever, soTemperature controls could choose people who does not even have COVID-19,Bruce Y. Lee, MD, wrote forStrong. Even worse, they could also miss people who took a fever reducer such as acetaminophen andarecontagious with the new coronavirus.
Even the principles of disease control and prevention centers (CDC) note that "screening and health checks are not a substitute for other protective measures such as social distance". And for more trouble advice, checkYou can keep your mask safely if you do that, says Dr. Fauci.