The University of Idaho is one of hundreds of colleges and universities that adopted fever scanners, symptom checkers, wearable heart-rate monitors and other new Covid-screening technologies this school year. Such tools often cost less than a more validated health intervention: frequent virus testing of all students. They also help colleges showcase their pandemic safety efforts….
The schools have a hard time saying whether — or how well — the new devices have worked. Many universities and colleges, including prominent research institutions, are not rigorously studying effectiveness.
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Singer, N. & Browning, K. (2021, March 2). Colleges That Require Virus-Screening Tech Struggle to Say Whether It Works. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/technology/college-coronavirus-tests.html