Some reopened schools are taking children’s temperatures each day. But experts increasingly say a fever isn’t a good gauge of Covid-19.
Across the country, the litmus test for many children’s entry into school, athletics and extracurricular activities, is their temperature.
But experts and medical groups increasingly say that isn’t a good gauge of Covid-19 as many infected children and adults don’t get fevers. Furthermore, variability in individual temperatures as well as questions about the accuracy of body-temperature scanners and infrared contact-free thermometers put such checks at risk of potential error.
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