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And as per these records not being in the best interest of the person, knowledge of previous infection could be useful in diagnosis if, say, the person has long
by anonymouskimmer 3y ago
And as per these records not being in the best interest of the person, knowledge of previous infection could be useful in diagnosis if, say, the person has long COVID and is unable to recite their medical history for some reason.
- ghaff 3y agoAdmittedly, the results of COVID instant tests were not necessarily recorded anywhere--at least unless you made an appointment with your doctor after a positive result. But I'm pretty sure that's not a reason to more or less uniquely exclude laboratory COVID tests from electronic record systems.
- systems_glitch 3y agoI was commenting w.r.t. employer-mandated tests of some/any sort. Things you might have to do as part of your going-to-work daily routine. During the pandemic, I had a few customers who would take temperature when you arrived on-site, and put it in the paper contractor/visitor log. If they'd wanted me to submit the data to some third party and actually associate it with my and/or my business's name, I'd have had a problem with that. It wouldn't matter to me what procedure I was being asked to submit to.
- ghaff 3y agoI think I only once had to take a test to attend an event--and the company that handled the process claimed that records weren't kept. Of course, I had to submit proof of vaccination on many occasions including to my company. I assume required testing was much more common in domains like healthcare.
- systems_glitch 3y agoYeah I carried my vaccine card for a while, I never had to get a test of any sort for entry, but did have to get my temperature taken a bunch.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoHow many temperature readers now log the information to the cloud?
- systems_glitch 3y agoDoesn't matter if there's no way to tie it back to the individual; that is, the information on whose temperature is never available to the reader.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoThat depends on how many people work in the particular area with the particular reader, and what their general patterns of arrival to work are, and what their general patterns of body temperature are.
- systems_glitch 3y agoFrom an absolute "can this be correlated?" perspective, sure. From a "is this data easily mine-able" or "if someone gets this data, will I care?" perspective, not so much.