> Grocery stores could provide safer working conditions by checking temps of employees before entering the store and providing masks and gloves for all workers
Checking temperatures is pretty much useless, when you can be totally asymptomatic, while spreading the virus for days.
That's the big difference (and difficulty) as compared to the first version of SARS, where symptoms appeared virtually instantly after infection.
> Checking temperatures is pretty much useless, when you can be totally asymptomatic, while spreading the virus for days.
It may not be 100% effective but it would surely help, possibly significantly. If we eliminated all but asymptomatic spread, how would that affect the reproduction rate?
It helps on the margins, just like masks and hand-washing. The more low-impact methods we can implement to reduce the transmission rate, the fewer high-impact methods are necessary.
Checking temperatures is pretty much useless, when you can be totally asymptomatic, while spreading the virus for days.
That's the big difference (and difficulty) as compared to the first version of SARS, where symptoms appeared virtually instantly after infection.