Symptom-based screening for COVID-19 in health care workers: The importance of fever

J Hosp Infect. 2020 May 22;105(3):428-429. doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2020.05.028. Online ahead of print.

¹ Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc, Avenue Hippocrate, 1200, Brussels. Electronic address: Jean.yombi@uclouvain.be.
² Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc, Avenue Hippocrate, 1200, Brussels.
³ Department of Strategy, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Avenue Hippocrate, 1200, Brussels.
⁴ Department of Microbiology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Avenue Hippocrate,1200, Brussels.
⁵ Department of Emergency, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Avenue Hippocrate,1200, Brussels.

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Keywords: Fever; RT-PCR; SARS-CoV-2; respiratory symptoms; sensitivity; specificity.