Fuci says that this Covid security measure is not "all that is cracked to be"
Temperature controls are hardly a way to resist the renunciation of infections.
Businesses and other public places continue to reopen everywhere in the country, various security measures are put in place to maintain healthy staff and visitors. A prevalent security function is the temperature check. If you go to the airport, the library and even some restaurants,You can meet a contactless thermometer Detect if you have a fever or not. They are supposed to help determine the likelihood of an infected person, however, temperature controls can not really protect against coronavirus, saysAnthony Fauci, MD. Although you are safer to know that workers and customers are taking their temperature, the entire process can be futile when it comes to curbing propagation.
In a recent interview with Marketwatch, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) said, "I'm not suretemperatures Does all it is cracked to be because there are many false negatives and false positives. In other words, a high temperature may indicate that someone has COVID even if they are not really infected, and vice versa.
According to disease control and prevention centers (CDC),The symptoms usually appear Between two and 14 days after exposure to the virus. So, anywhere in this window, contagious people may not have yet developed fever. And when their symptomsto do Show up, a fever may not be part of the package. A study published at the end of April by theAMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL have found that two-thirds of CVIV-19 seriously ill patients followeddid not have a fever. And then there are asymptomatic people - which constitute about40% of COVID-19 cases. They will not show any sign of the virus, including fever. Based on single temperature controls would result in the disappearance of all those contagious people who could actively spread the virus.
Another problem is that Covid-19 is not the only disease that manifests itself in a fever. It is a symptom that can be introduced by many conditions, includingexhaustion of heat and even some medicines, by the Mayo Clinic. Employers could send domestic workers who do not have COVIDs and are not otherwise dangerous for others.
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Nor is there a healthy healthy temperature range in the national security of coronavirus. While the CDC considersAny higher temperature More than 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit to be a fever, the fever verification threshold falls somewhere in a range, depending on the WHO that performs the tests. ThroughThe Washington Post,The cutoff of Delaware is 99.5 degrees; In Texas, it's 100.
This does not mean that we should throw the temperature check completely. INFECTIOUS EXPERT OF DISEASESAMESH A. Adalja, MD, saysHealth, "Screening for fever May be part of a wider system "because" the prevention of infection with the new coronavirus is a multi-faceted task ".
In the meantime, Fauci suggests that COVID projections must involve issues on symptoms and contact with infected people, not just a temperature check. "The time spent asking for a few simple questions is probably more effective than taking temperatures," he said in the MarketWatch maintenance.
To find out how the outdoor temperature affects the virus, checkThis exact temperature increases covid dead, study of the study.
