Temperature checks and symptom-based screenings to identify potential coronavirus cases are costly and ineffective, a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found.

“Symptom-based screening programs are ineffective because of the nonspecific clinical presentation of COVID-19 and asymptomatic cases,” the CDC wrote. “Passenger entry screening was resource-intensive with low yield of laboratory-diagnosed COVID-19 cases.”

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