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It's possible to have the virus without showing significant symptoms, isn't it? Either because you just recently caught it, or because you happen to be lucky en
by MaxBarraclough 7y ago
It's possible to have the virus without showing significant symptoms, isn't it? Either because you just recently caught it, or because you happen to be lucky enough to have only minimal symptoms. Doesn't that undermine temperature-based detection?
- adrianmonk 7y agoYeah, for sure it can't be 100% effective. I suppose what really matters is out of all the infected (or more precisely, contagious) people, what percentage of them have a fever. If it's 10%, then it's not worth doing. If it's even 50%, then maybe it could make a significant difference. Fever is one of the three main symptoms (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/symptoms.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/symptoms.htm...), so it seems like it has to at least be a significant percentage. But just how high a percentage, I don't know.