Considerations and a call to action for the use of noncontact forehead infrared handheld thermometers during the COVID-19 pandemic

J Glob Health. 2021 Jan 30:11:03023. doi: 10.7189/jogh.11.03023.

Authors

Wing P Chan^{1

2}, Russell Oliver Kosik², C Jason Wang^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
² Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
³ Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
⁴ The New School for Leadership in Health Care, Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, Taipei, Taiwan.

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Body Temperature*
COVID-19 / complications
COVID-19 / diagnosis*
Fever / diagnosis*
Forehead*
Humans
Mass Screening / methods*
Pandemics*
SARS-CoV-2
Thermometers*
Touch