Body temperature screening to identify SARS-CoV-2 infected young adult travellers is ineffective

Travel Med Infect Dis. 2020 Sep-Oct:37:101832. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101832. Epub 2020 Aug 5.

¹ Swiss Armed Forces, Medical Services, Worblentalstrasse 36, 3063, Ittigen, Switzerland; University of Zurich, Institute for Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention, Institute, Travel Clinic, Hirschengraben 84, 8001, Zürich, Switzerland.
² Swiss Armed Forces, Medical Services, Worblentalstrasse 36, 3063, Ittigen, Switzerland.
³ University of Zurich, Institute for Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention, Institute, Travel Clinic, Hirschengraben 84, 8001, Zürich, Switzerland.
⁴ Swiss Armed Forces, Medical Services, Worblentalstrasse 36, 3063, Ittigen, Switzerland; University of Cambridge, Department of Haematology and MRC - Wellcome Stem Cell Institute, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Puddicombe Way, CB2 0AW, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Electronic address: [email protected].

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Keywords: Coronavirus Disease-19; Fever; Screening; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.

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