Infrared thermometers to screen for Covid: more marketing than medical evidence

Re:Infrared thermometers to screen for Covid: more marketing... by nomofomo2 on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @03:21AM (#24047540)

I biked to a non-doctor appointment in 80+ degree heat recently. A guy thermometer-gunned my forehead before coming in. I was outside and visibly sweaty, but I still had to warn him that given the circumstances, my temperature might appear a bit high. I don't know if people are really thinking through any of this.

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Re:Infrared thermometers to screen for Covid: more marketing... by misanthropian00 on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @05:03AM (#24048067)

Did it read high? I have been checked by IR thermometers hundreds of times and have never tested above 36.9C which seems to be the gate temp around here. I too have sometimes been hot and sweaty and it didn't seem to affect the results much. I cannot even enter my own apartment building without passing an IR thermo check.

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Re:Infrared thermometers to screen for Covid: more marketing... by Scoundreller on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:32AM (#24048546)

I wonder how much of a difference biking made. Generating your own breeze may balance things out.

Right now where I am, air conditioning isn’t common, but it was slightly above body temperature at the peaks of each day (I guess 100F). I wonder how that worked out with scans.

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