You are a health policy advisor for the American Public Health Association (APHA) and are part of a team conducting a post-pandemic evaluation of several critical issues that arose during COVID-19. Your team has already examined the constitutionality of mask mandates in indoor public settings.  Now, the team is ready to review additional public health strategies that federal, state, and local governments in the U.S. used to control the spread of COVID-19. 

To help frame the review, your team is reviewing the actions of one of the most populous states in the U.S. where outbreak levels of COVID-19 were high, especially before the COVID-19 vaccine became widely available.  For purposes of this exercise, the team is referring to this state as State X. 

Throughout the course of the pandemic, State X tried several strategies to help control the spread of COVID-19. In addition to mask mandates, State X used its authority under its existing public health laws to do the following: 

Require that all public schools within the state take students' temperatures each day at the entrance to the school building. Parent/guardian consent was not required. Students with fevers were sent home

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