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India is a Commonwealth country, and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people still think in imperial (not US customary) units. Also, here in the UK, for the
by beojan 7y ago
India is a Commonwealth country, and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people still think in imperial (not US customary) units.
Also, here in the UK, for the purposes of identifying COVID-19 symptoms, a fever is being defined as 38.6 °C = 100.0 °F, so US recommendations are clearly having an influence in other countries.
- garmaine 7y agoThe US doesn't recognize 100.0 °F as a fever. That's within normal range.
- RandomBacon 7y agoThere are different definitions of "fever" in medical websites. Some say anything above a person's normal average temperature is a fever, with it being considered a serious fever if the temperature is above 100.4°F.
- BerislavLopac 7y ago100 F is 37.8 (more precisely 37.77777...) C.
- beojan 7y agoIndeed. It's the Celsius figure that I misquoted. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-on-isolation-for-residential-educational-settings https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid...