In Detroit summer school, temperature checks and health questions before math and reading

[brooklynite]

Washington Post

DETROIT — A morning line of second-graders waits patiently outside the entrance of Munger Elementary-Middle School on the city’s southwest side. Milagra Fernandez steps forward, and a staff member in a blue T-shirt emblazoned with “Auntie” starts running through her questions.

“No cough, sore throat or runny nose?” she asks. “No upset stomach? Having any problems with taste or smell?”

The staffer is wearing a white N95 mask. Milagra sports a rainbow-sequined version. The 7-year-old answers “no” again and again and then steps onto the sidewalk sticker that will keep her six feet from the boy who had just gone through the same drill. A few minutes later, the children are called in one by one, first to a long table with hand sanitizer, a bowl of extra surgical masks and a contactless thermometer for temperature checks. All get a prepacked breakfast, and another day of summer school officially begins.

Everyone in sight is masked and will remain so for the next four hours.

[cyclonefence]

1. Not skeptical, just curious

Have temperature checks been proven to weed out people with CV?

Maybe a little skeptical.

[marmar]

2. They won't identify asymptomatic carriers.

[Initech]

3. Ugh, I really hate this virus world so much right now.