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Schools Are Doing COVID-19 Temperature Checks: Do They Really Help?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doesn’t recommend schools use them. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, called them “notoriously inaccurate.” And they can be expensive and time-consuming.

Yet more than half of U.S. schools are conducting or plan to do temperature checks for students and employees for in-person instruction as a means of screening for coronavirus infection, according to a nationally representative Education Week Research Center survey conducted last month.

What accounts for this discrepancy?

https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/11/05/schools-are-doing-covid-19-temperature-checks-do.html?cmp=RSS-FEED

 

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