Why Is My Temperature Reading 95 Degrees? Am I Dead?

Why Is My Temperature Reading 95 Degrees? Am I Dead?
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Temperature check stations are everywhere now—concert venues, bars, airports—and you might think that clocking in with a fever at one of them would mean you should go take a COVID test, or at the very least, exit the premises. But Brooklyn federal court officers apparently have a different approach: instruct the person who received a too-high temperature reading to bask in the cool winds of an air conditioner vent for a few minutes, then reenter, according to a New York Daily News reporter who experienced this method himself.

 



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