Widespread temperature check drive throughs like #korea did. Doesn’t have to be mandatory to be effective
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Temperature check will miss all of the asymptomatic cases, which seem to be the predominant route of transmission. Also, they will give false confidence to asymptomatic people which will further increase asymptomatic transmissibility. It’s a very bad idea.
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This is an exponential problem - and the key difficulty is that it spreads presymptotically. Earlier catch = exponential impact. Fever is arguably the most common symptom. We don’t need to catch every case to get R<1
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I’m not saying that temperature checking isn’t useful for detecting symptomatic cases. I’m saying that the false confidence it inspires in asymptomatic people, who are already the predominant route of transmission, will likely increase their R0. Need actual testing too.
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Temperature is only 1 of many symptoms. Even symptomatic patients didn't always present with elevated temperatures.
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Replying to @Pravduh15 @nanogenomic and
Yah but IMO most quantifiable symptom that can be done rapidly on a wide scale
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Replying to @robbinhood692 @nanogenomic and
Not sure if this helps, but here's an article that explains it a little... Tests are the only way to tell. Elevated temps aren't always present with COVID pts. Assymptomatic can spread the virus and have no symptoms.https://www.healthline.com/health-news/temperature-checks-not-effective-preventive-measure-against-covid-19 …
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Replying to @Pravduh15 @nanogenomic and
Temp a way to leverage testing capacity. Testing capacity clearly bottleneck rn or we’d just PCR every person one day and be done w this
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Replying to @robbinhood692 @nanogenomic and
Even if you tested everyone today, you would miss some cases. There's a period when you have it, but before you test positive.
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R<1 is the goal. If u can test everyone in one day and repeat often enough R<1
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firstly, you may not understand that R < 0.99 is hundreds of thousands more dead and vastly longer and more economically damaging than R < 0.5. second, I think you are not understanding that the sistuation is FUCKED and what you are suggesting isn't close to sufficient.
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