Under the pandemic of COVID-19, screening becomes important to tackle the spread. Fever is one of the screening criteria for many public places screening for access.
However, how is fever defined?
Is the 0.1 degree change makes the significance?
What is the range of standard deviation being acceptable?
What machine is accurate?
Is those hand held infrared measuring machines reliable?
Is there scenarios giving false negative tha may make a huge consequence?
Normal Body Temperature: A Systematic Review.
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2019;6(4):ofz032. Published 2019 Apr 9.
https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz032
Yes, fever is definitely one of the screening criteria.
However, what cut off of degree will you take?
Is 0.1 degree a significant cut off?
Itmay not be defined with definite limit but..its mkne of symptom of COVIDZ
Having fever is not a symptom exclusive from Covid. From a medical standpoint equal or higher than 38 celcius starts to be a concern, low fever can start from 37.5, but if only a single measure in this range it should not be a problem.
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