Is your insurance company refusing to pay for your latest COVID test? Are you getting tired of those deep nose swabs?
Get a dog..
Not only will you have a friend, but potentially your canine bestie will be able to tell you when you have COVID.
At least according to the “new study”…
The meta-analysis found that dogs’ sense of smell can be a faster, more precise, less expensive – not to mention friendlier – method for detecting COVID-19 than even our best current technology. A growing number of studies over the last two or so years has highlighted the power of dogs in detecting the stealthy virus and its variants, even when they are obscured by other viruses, such as those from common colds and flu. All these enhancements mean that dogs can detect very low concentrations of odors associated with COVID infections.
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“They can detect the equivalent of one drop of an odorous substance in 10.5 Olympic-sized swimming pools,” University of California at Santa Barbara Prof. Emeritus Tommy Dickey said. “For perspective, this is about three orders of magnitude better than with scientific instrumentation.”
In some cases, dogs were able to detect COVID in presymptomatic and asymptomatic patients whose viral load was too low for conventional tests to work.
