Temperature checks

[yellowfishestoyou]

Hi does anyone know what temperature a person would be turned away from somewhere that are doing temperature checks?

I’m not sure, but I wonder how many people are ever turned away with those... It would take one odd person to go to a restaurant/bar etc with a fever in this climate!

Our nursery turns them away at 37 or above

37 is a normal body temperature for a child, your nursery will have no kids! NHS says over 38 is a fever. Rules at my work are over 37.8.

My temp is 37 before and during my period so that seems silly. 37.5 is start of a fever

We have the temperature "guns" at work where you point them at someone's forehead, press the button and it gives you a reading.

Anything 38 degrees or above sets off an alarm on the unit

I have constant severe hot flushes so I'm guessing my temperature is regularly raised!

I run warm generally. My resting temperature (I've been lying on the sofa eating choc hobnobs for the last 15mins) is 37. So who knows what it's going to be when I've been rushing around to get to work on time?!

I hit 37.2 to 37.5 during ovulation and my period so I'd be screwed with a 37 cut off

I think 37.8 was the government number wasnt it?

37.8 and above is technically classed as an above normal temperature.

Is this an accurate measure of whether someone could infected? Can't help feeling it's more for reassurance than anything else. You could be asymptomatic or be contagious but not not have developed a temperature yet. It's a bit like the hand sanitiser at the entrances to shops being a great idea but not if they touched by everyone who enters to use it.

Is this an accurate measure of whether someone could infected? Can't help feeling it's more for reassurance than anything else. You could be asymptomatic or be contagious but not not have developed a temperature yet. It's a bit like the hand sanitiser at the entrances to shops being a great idea but not if they touched by everyone who enters to use it.

@BackInTime

Is this an accurate measure of whether someone could infected? Can't help feeling it's more for reassurance than anything else. You could be asymptomatic or be contagious but not not have developed a temperature yet. It's a bit like the hand sanitiser at the entrances to shops being a great idea but not if they touched by everyone who enters to use it.

No, not in the slightest and it doesn’t allow for any parents giving their children ibuprofen or paracetamol beforehand either to bring a temperature down. It’s nurseries, and other places, doing something practical to try to check to do their part in helping to keep cases down. There is no accurate measure that is guaranteed that can tell within a few seconds whether everyone has covid-19 or not.

We went to a Merlin theme park at the weekend I believe they turn you away 38 or above.