
Press releases by the veterinary division of the University of Pennsylvania and LSHTM prove that dogs are being trained to detect COVID-19 in humans.
As per the press release by The University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine dated 28 April 2020, a new program has been started to train scent detection dogs to discriminate between samples from COVID-19 positive and COVID-19 negative patients. The school said the training started with dogs sniffing out a smell to get a treat. The dogs would then begin to use samples from patients who have tested both positive and negative for COVID-19.
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