I had a buddy claim they've trained some canines to detect the infection. I've heard of cancer sniffing dogs but this seems a little far fetched. Has anyone heard about this?

I have no clue if it's true, but I assume it's possible. I heard some podcast about a women who could smell Parkinson's and Alzheimer's in people, often years before it was diagnosable. She can reliably smell how
many years people have had the diseases.

Absolutely crazy story:
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/817977005

They are using Covid sniffing dogs in the Dubai airport.

https://www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/dubai-international-airport-coronavirus-dogs

Scent dog identification of samples from COVID-19 patients a pilot study

Ag Natural said:

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I had a buddy claim they've trained some canines to detect the infection. I've heard of cancer sniffing dogs but this seems a little far fetched. Has anyone heard about this?

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Turns out Covid smells exactly like Snausages.

Smells like bat soup

I read an article awhile back about dogs that could smell cancer in human bodies.

Some measures of dog smell report that a dog can detect a strong odor at as low as 1 to 2 parts per trillion.

When a person has COVID, their immune system responds by making antibodies, T-cells, cytokines, and other proteins to respond to the virus. I would not be surprised at all if one or some combination of these are breathed out by a COVID patient with sufficient strength to be detected by a well trained dog. So, I doubt they have the ability to smell the actual virus, but could likely be good detectors of changes in people's immune systems when infected.

I can smell a rat.

Just a couple more years of this while we ramp up production of beagles, then we gotta train them and distribute them equally. Back to normal before you know it.

sleepybeagle said:

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I can smell a rat.

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My wife's doctor in a conference call with her patients, spoke of a paper/research from Germany that concluded dogs can be fairly easily trained to sniff out covid cases.

Ag Natural said:

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I had a buddy claim they've trained some canines to detect the infection. I've heard of cancer sniffing dogs but this seems a little far fetched. Has anyone heard about this?

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It's definitely possible. A friend of my wife's has a dog that can tell when she is going to have a seizure somehow.