Regarding the question about taking temps.  We are using subjective fever/chills.  Logistically, difficult to get a temp if the employee outside the workplace if he/she didn’t have a thermometer of her own.   Curiously, of the small number of COVID-19 infections we have had in our employees,  very few had documented Tmax greater than 100. 

 

Here is our flow chart.   We started a pilot with it this AM.   A colleague of mine found it on line…I think it is from a California government agency.   We made it our own.

It’s almost painfully simple.  May do a bit more wordsmithing.   But that’s ok.  It may be throwing a very wide net…we’ll see.  That’s why we’re doing a pilot.     Comments/suggestions welcomed, BTW. 

 

 

Ed Galaid

 

Edward I. Galaid, MD, MPH, FACOEM

ABIM, ABPM (OM)

Medical Director, Roper St. Francis Physician Partners Occupational Medicine

Charleston, SC

Member, ACOEM Task Group,  Guidance for the Medical Evaluation of Law Enforcement Officers

Special Expert, NFPA Fire Service Occupational Safety & Health (FIX-AAA) Committee

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