In recent weeks, a new cadre of gatekeepers armed with thermometer guns has appeared at the entrances of hospitals, office buildings and manufacturing plants to screen out feverish individuals who may carry the coronavirus.
There is ample reason for concern. Coronavirus outbreaks — like one in East Lansing, Michigan, this summer that infected 187 people — have been traced to superspreading gatherings at bars and restaurants. And a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that one difference between people who contracted the virus and those who did not is that infected individuals were twice as likely to have eaten at a restaurant in the two weeks preceding their illness.
Earlier this week, the CDC — which in May told employers to consider checking workers daily for symptoms like fever but appeared to reverse itself in July — said it would stop requiring airport health screenings beginning Sept. 14 for international passengers from China, Iran, Brazil and other countries because the checks can’t identify silent carriers.
Most people who spike a fever feel lousy and presumably would cancel their dinner plans, said Dr. Thomas McGinn, Northwell Health’s senior vice president and deputy physician in chief. Temperature checks might pick up a few individuals who are unaware of their fever, he said.It does, however, convey a strong public health message, serving as a reminder that people must take precautions, and that itself may be of benefit, McGinn said.
“You are maximally infectious before you exhibit symptoms, if you exhibit any symptoms at all,” Paltiel said. “You can be exposed and incubating the virus, and be beginning to shed massive amounts of transmissible virus and be a superspreader, without actually exhibiting any symptoms like a fever.”Instead, he said, restaurants should push for access to rapid-turnaround, point-of-care tests for patrons.
Fever checks are an easier and cheaper option.
Do they use them at the BidenRiots
There are no gate keepers, other than not going through the gate
no
Simply put, NO.
Its like the vaccine that will be coming out in Nov. It makes us feel safer, that we're doing something.
Asymptomatic people spread the virus.