Another problem with temperature checks: The thermal cameras that some business and airports are using to scan temperatures aren’t as accurate as individual thermometers are, meaning they’re imperfect filters even for people with fevers. DronesIf you have a fever, how are you supposed to know whether or not the fever is due to the coronavirus?
Well, you would need to get a test to confirm a coronavirus case, particularly if you don’t have other symptoms or a consistent fever. The problem is that failing a temperature check wouldn’t mean you’d automatically get a referral for a test, and even as testing capacity ramps up, getting one canA little bit! Temperature checks really only stand to work as well as the rest of the system does. There are a number of ways people could respond to realizing they have a fever that would help, sure.
If you haven’t seen New York Times reporter Donald McNeil’s appearance on Rachel Maddow’s show , it provides a very helpful breakdown on why widespread temperature checks are a viable strategy for China to combat the coronavirus but are less effective here.
Your headline is goofy. In the body of the article “only if the rest of the system is working” seems to suggest that temperature checks are worthless unless a fever results in detainment and privacy invasion. For you a “working system” would seem to be a dystopian nightmare.
We have no system.