Nebraskans to use app-connected thermometers to help predict COVID-19 outbreaks – Omaha World-Herald

Kinsa already is working with Colorado, Connecticut, Oregon and Idaho, which are purchasing and distributing additional thermometers. Programs in California and Louisiana are being funded with private money. The company also is working with several cities. Kinsa has had discussions with Douglas County officials, but no agreement has been reached.

Linda Munderloh, school nurse for the Bancroft-Rosalie school district, sees a more immediate use for the thermometers.

Bancroft-Rosalie, which has returned to in-person classes, is asking families to take students temperatures every morning and evening. School staff also are taking students temperatures in the morning.

Once the new devices arrive, the district will send them home with the eldest child in each family. Munderloh and some parents already are familiar with the devices, because the school district earlier served as a pilot site for Kinsa.

In the past, shes been surprised how many parents havent had a working thermometer in the home. During the pandemic, the devices have been hard to come by at times.

So this is a huge plus for us, she said.

The school gets updates again, no names that allow her to check in with a teacher if the system indicates, say, that a sixth-grader has a fever.

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