Have any of the authors explained why they used fairly erratic self-reported temperature readings rather than, say, sending 30 virus test kits out to each person in the study and having each person take the tests on pre-scheduled days?
The authors didn't set out to study Covid transmission and design this study for that purpose. They just got access to an existing data set of temperature readings from Kinsa and did some math on it.
Have any of the authors explained why they used fairly erratic self-reported temperature readings rather than, say, sending 30 virus test kits out to each person in the study and having each person take the tests on pre-scheduled days?
The authors didn't set out to study Covid transmission and design this study for that purpose. They just got access to an existing data set of temperature readings from Kinsa and did some math on it.