HUFFINGTON POST: Are Temperature Checks A Good Test For Coronavirus?

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Professor Ashley Woodcock, an expert in respiratory medicine at the University of Manchester, tells HuffPost UK temperature checks would miss all asymptomatic cases – so there would be many false negative results.

And by September, when common cold and flu season starts, people are likely to show a fever, but they won’t have coronavirus, Prof Woodcock adds. “There will be false positive results – more than the true positives, which should be low by then.”