Do infrared temperature checkers work? As experts raise doubts about front-line kit, we put different thermometers to the test
A temperature in excess of 38°C (100.4F) is considered a fever when taken outside a healthcare environment
MailOnline tests on a healthy person found various thermometers gave readings between 36.2°C and 37.6°C
Tests found widely-used infrared non-contact thermometers under-read temperatures by up to 1.4°C (2.5°F)
Researchers say the lack of reliability makes many commercial solutions useless for Covid screening
They say the digital results lull people into a false sense of security and should be ditched in favour of improved hygiene measures, social distancing and mask wearing
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NCIT are unsuccessful screeners of COVID-19
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Those mandatory temperature screenings at airports, offices, and medical facilities are not actually preventing COVID-19 spread, says a pair of researchers in an
Open Forum Infectious Diseases op-ed.
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Forehead temperature scans have so far identified a comically low number of cases. The authors from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the University of Maryland School of Medicine quote a November CDC report showing that of 766,000 travelers screened with forehead thermometers from mid-January to mid-September, only one person per 85,000 or about 0.001% later tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.
Body temperature may not be the best way to identify COVID-19 patients, they say, and even if it was, temperature scanning has two severe flaws.
New study says non-contact infrared thermometers are not successful as COVID-19 screeners ANI | Updated: Dec 16, 2020 09:10 IST
Baltimore [US], December 16 (ANI): One of the most common symptoms of COVID-19 is being sick with fever, whereas a study by Johns Hopkins Medicine and the University of Maryland School of Medicine describes that temperature screening, primarily done with a non-contact infrared thermometer (NCIT) is not an effective strategy to staunch the spread of COVID-19 virus.
According to an editorial published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases, the online journal of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the first aspect of COVID-19 screening by the temperature that the researchers questioned was when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S.