Temperature Screening (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Temperature Screening

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Physicians at Johns Hopkins Medicine and the University of Maryland Medical School say a non-contact infrared thermometer, such as the one being used here to check a traveler for fever at the airport, is a poor means of screening for COVID-19 infection.

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