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gruez on Aug 3, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Infrared thermometers to screen for Covid: more ma...

>Before I can enter, a guard at the door points an infrared thermometer at my forehead. "Eighty-five degrees! Come on in, sir!"

sounds like they used a general purpose infrared thermometer rather than the ones designed for medical use.

OrangeMango on Aug 3, 2020 [–]

We've got an expensive infrared medical thermometer (purchased long before Covid) and it appears to be quite accurate for everyone in our family except me. According to it, I am pretty reliably dead.

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