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Home Monitoring for Fever: An Inexpensive Screening Method to Prevent Household Spread of COVID-19

2021-12-27 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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The COVID-19 pandemic surge has exceeded testing capacities in many parts of the world. We investigated the effectiveness of home temperature monitoring for early identification of COVID-19 patients. Study DesignWe compared home temperature measurements from a convenience sample of 1180 individuals who reported being test positive for SARS-CoV-2 to an age, sex, and location matched control group of 1249 individuals who had not tested positive. MethodsAll individuals monitored their temperature...

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