DRONEon episode 9...

Years ago, Amazon was planning to make deliveries via drones. I haven't heard much more about this. Several inventors have created prototypes of drones large enough for two. One unit claimed to autonomous where the flight command were entirely by computer, GPS and a remote monitoring station. Again, concept, I don't recall hearing any of that technology actually being used. I believe the holdup on this type of aircraft is the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval.

In one of my blogs, I described how Florida Power & Light (FPL) maintenance crews use drones with infrared heat-seeking scanners used to detect faulty connections. Another recent blog comment was Palm Beach County has installed specialized heat seeking cameras at their doors that scan people entering the building and will alert security if they detect someone with a fever.
Today, I found an article about a town in Connecticut where the police department is planning to deploy their "pandemic drone" that could detect fever and coughing from 190 feet.
My first thought was... "Everyone is on lockdown, where are they going to use this drone?"
Of course it will be after when people will be returning to work and there's a chance that some will will have beginning stages of the virus... unless there's more testing available so no one will have to wait, or someone will be ignoring the fever and going to work anyway.

Comments to the article were as expected and ranged from privacy concerns and medical testing without permission, Big Brother, 1984, police state.

You get the idea.
FAA would have to approve this action. So I went to their website and found:

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is proactively taking steps to help address the widespread economic and health effects that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the aviation industry. The FAA continues to evaluate a large number of requests from across all aviation industry sectors to help address COVID-19-related effects.

Regulatory Updates
Drone Use for Response Efforts
The FAA is enabling drone use for COVID-19 response efforts within our existing regulations and emergency procedures. Our small unmanned aircraft rule (Part 107) and Certificate of Authorization process allow operators to transport goods and certain medical supplies – including test kits, most prescription drugs and, under certain circumstances, blood – provided the flight complies with all provisions of the rule or authorization. The FAA also issues special approvals, some in less than an hour, for flights that support emergency activities and appropriate government, health, or community initiatives. The agency's Systems Operations Support Center is available 24/7 to process emergency requests. Safety is the top consideration as we review each request.

It appears some form of drone action will be implemented.