Has anyone been temperature tested in a public place and found a high temperature?

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I'm just wondering if there's any point really. You never hear of either staff, or people tested, reporting they thought they were fine and had their temperature taken and found they had COVID that way.

It seems like a waste of time if not!

I'm also dead from the ones I've had. Despite pointing out that the reading was inaccurate, the therapist was happy with it. I'm a nurse so am a pro at taking temperatures!

As a perimenopausal woman I am very prone to hot flushes. High temperature does not automatically equal Covid.

@CatVsChristmasTree yes we once had a similar type of thermometer. It didn't last long. And we don't use tympanic for bed either. Always Axilla.

I think the forehead ones are used as a deterrent to ill people rather than to actually catch them.

That makes sense - I wonder if DS's nursery just do it to deter parents from sending them in with 'just a bit of a temperature' because they'll think they'll be caught - I don't think they would be because DS is consistently 30-32 on their thermometer so there's no chance he'd be reading as over 37.8 even if had the sort of fever you'd be hospitalised for, but I can see the value of it as a deterrent.

This is why were in such a mess: shit, half-arsed mitigations that aren't fit for purpose. I take my temperature with an in-ear thermometer regularly and am always a lot lower with a forehead gun.

Next will be inaccurate lateral flow tests used in school to justify keeping the close contacts of positive cases in. Numbers will explode and it's patently obvious to anyone with a modicum of common sense.

A member of our workforce failed a temperature check. He was asked to sit quietly for 10 minutes before a second check which he also failed.

He was sent home, took a test and it was positive.

DS1 is tested everydaybas he arrives for work. He generally records 31-33 degrees...I'm not completely convinced it's accurate

Cut a long story short I paid private for a dentist that miraculously did not use the scanners and voila problem solved.
I guess money talks!
My dentist who wouldn’t see me was private, I was just about to pay him £765 for a new crown. I disagree with you.

@cliffdiver if you’d added 2-3 degrees to my temperature it would have been about 42C and I’d be at high risk of brain damage and coma, which seems unlikely since I’d was happily sitting in my car chatting on the phone and enjoying the sunshine.

We found that essentially having the heating on in the car or wearing a hat immediately prior to being tested (other than a cap) would usually be sufficient to lead to a high reading. I know an organisation which tested temperature reading and decided against it for that reason - because of the location, everyone was arriving in a beanie, usually after a stiff walk. Twenty minutes later, they were back to a normal temperature.

I can recommend taking off any hat before having your temperature taken.

I was found to have a raised temperature at the dentist. I argued that I was hot. The receptionist waited 5 min after my hat had come off and it was normal. With the same thermometer.