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The debate on temperature measurement In view of Back to school it becomes stricter, also thanks to Piedmont’s decision to introduce the obligation for schools that has caused much controversy, in addition to the position taken by Minister Azzolina, who does not exclude challenging the Piedmontese ordinance.
Why should the temperature be measured at school
However, the question of temperature measurement at school or at home encounters contradictory opinions: on the one hand, scientists like Chrysanthemums they believe that temperature should be measured at school, with a unique instrument: “Having 8 million families measuring their fever with different thermometers is not a procedure that leads to clarity. I think that the temperature in the school should have been measured with automatic and efficient systems that are available.“Said the virologist to Agorà in Rai 3.
Maria Rita Gismondo, director of the Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Virology and Bioemergency Diagnosis of the Sacco Hospital in Milan, also opposes: “I am absolutely against the familiar temperature measurement.”To the children who go to school.
Three reasons to take your temperature at home
But there are those who think otherwise. For example Luca richeldi, Director of the UOC of Pulmonology at the Gemelli Irccs Polyclinic in Rome and member of Scientific technical committee (Cts) for the coronavirus emergency, believes that temperature measurement at home. And explain that there is three good reasons: “first of all, Basic – highlights the expert from AdnKronos Health – this should always be done, in order to intercept any discomfort. And in this period it is advisable to be even more careful“.
In second place, the expert explains that “the detection of the temperature at home ensures that the feverish child does not come into contact with anyone else, colleagues, teachers, other adults, also avoiding the risk of meetings when measuring with thermochannelizers“.
The third reason therefore, according to Richeldi, it is necessary to measure fever at home and not at school, it is linked to resources “:Equip all schools with a thermocanner to monitor students one by one Cit involves a significant expense, which can be avoided precisely by controlling the home. “
However, the member of the Scientific Technical Committee explains that it would be “It is advisable to have a ‘gun’ thermometer, one of the electronic ones, in schools to measure the fever of the students in case of discomfort.“According to Richeldi, in fact, the temperature.”can also get up during the day: the student arrives without fever and after a few hours is ill“.
