re: Ebola Nurse in Maine Takes a Bike Ride - Cops Follow

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experts have also stated that 15% NEVER get a fever. So they won't know they're sick until they're sick...and hopefully that won't be sitting on a crowded subway and puking on someone or sneezing on someone.

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Since the doctors were dealing with a pandemic they may have skipped writing down a temperature for a given patient

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Exactly mmcgrath. Exactly.
Your reference may be to a different study, but the story is exactly the same.

Data is only as accurate as its input. Different study, but a very similar problem.

I'd be extremely surprised if Docs are either making or recording those temp measurements themselves. In some instances, RNs may be doing it, but more likely it's a function assigned to techs or screeners identical to those in the Monrovia Airport.

In other words, those insisting patients in the contagious phase of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever somehow have no fever, should consider the data source . . . . it's Liberia!
By its nature the good folks performing those measurements are often challenged by the instrumentation, the circumstances, the documentation, and the workload.

It's Liberia, where airport screeners send travelers off on international flights with registered temps of 32°C. FWIW, 32°C is more or less compatible with a slightly warm corpse. It is not just an erroneous reading. It is not recognized as erroneous by those involved.

Of course dubious data aside, the article skeeter531 linked also interprets Ebola infection and contagiousness as synonymous. I hope those here understand such an association to be misguided.