Those mandatory temperature screenings at airports, offices, and medical facilities are not actually preventing COVID-19 spread, a pair of researchers says.

Professor Tipton said: “Using a surface temperature scanner to obtain a single surface temperature, usually the forehead, is an unreliable method to detect the fever associated with Covid-19.

Google, you know they make smartwatches, right? The Pixel 8 Pro can now read body temps, if you swipe it across your face The phone needs a four-second forehead scan to read your temperature.

During the pandemic, the chances are that as you enter an airport or doctor’s surgery, someone will point an infrared thermometer at your forehead in order to assess your temperature. Your skin ...

Wrist temperature scanners deploy the same infrared technology that the forehead scanners use to detect what one’s temperature is. The technology means that temperatures can be checked without ...

Amazon.com Inc has started to use thermal cameras at its warehouses to speed up screening for feverish workers who could be infected with the coronavirus, employees told Reuters.

Protest for women of color maternal healthcare at Cedars-Sinai She says "normal" for a forehead temperature is up to a degree less than "normal" for an oral thermometer, which is 98.6 degrees.

The articles explain that forehead thermometers, also known as temporal artery thermometers, are accurate because they use an infrared scanner to measure core temperatures with a quick scan.