‘It’s a Game for Them.’ Scientists Around the World Are Teaching Dogs to Sniff Out COVID-19
—and showed that the dogs were able to distinguish between coronavirus-positive samples and a control group with an average sensitivity of 83% and a specificity of 96% after only one week of training. That’s not quite as accurate as COVID-19 rapid antigen tests, which have a sensitivity ranging fromand specificities of 100%. But antigen tests require often uncomfortable nasal swabs, and take about 15 minutes to return results.
Coronavirus sniffing dogs are already in use at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport as part of a Finnish government-sponsored pilot program; canines are also currently scanning for COVID-19 in multiple airports in theDespite those deployments, there’s still plenty we don’t know about dogs’ ability to detect COVID-19. It remains unclear how strong any coronavirus odor smells to dogs, for instance.
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