Fever scanners used to fight Covid can be wildly inaccurate, researchers find
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But yea, pantomime is large in covid
The one contactless thermometer I know of with approval for hospital use requires wiping the skin and aiming two separate beams until they line up for getting the distance correct.
People are using rebranded thermometers that are usually used to tell you what's hot and what's really really hot... think burn your skin off hot