Do thermometers work for the coronavirus?

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2	Sensitivities
3	How many people have a fever?					How good are the thermometers
4	0.10%	Has fever				55.00%	Sensitivity:	If somebody has fever, they catch that 55% of the time
5	99.90%	No fever				98.40%	Specificity:	If somebody does not have a fever, they recognize that 98.4% of the time
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8	Calculations
9				How good is the thermometer?
10				It says the person has fever	It says the person doesn't have fever
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12	Are people actually sick?			Catches positives when they are	Fails to catch positives when they are
13				55.00%	45.00%
14		Yes	0.10%	0.06%	0.05%
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16				Fails to catch negatives when they are	Catches negatives when they are
17				1.60%	98.40%
18		No	99.90%	1.60%	98.30%
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21	Conclusions
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23	People who test positive and are rejected			1.65%
24	Share of rejected that were not sick			97%
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26	People who test negative and are accepted			98.35%		Source
27	People who are sick and are still accepted			0.05%		https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03565.x
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29	Share of sick who still go through			45%
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32	Author:	Matt Bell
33	Source:	https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03565.x
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