Florida uses dogs to detect COVID-19: over 90% accuracy
According to a professor at Florida International University, dogs detecting coronavirus at the entrances to sports facilities and theme parks in Central Florida could soon become normal. Click orlando.
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Dr. Kenneth Furton is Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and President of the University. He says dogs can be more than 19 percent accurate in detecting COVID-90.
Furton said the university has been training dogs to do "detective" work to detect COVID-19 indoors for the past six months.
The school said that in 9 out of 10 cases, dogs can detect a person infected with COVID-19.
Researchers are collecting used face masks from confirmed COVID-19 patients at a nearby hospital and are training dogs to detect the virus.
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If a dog has already been trained to detect odors, Ferton said, it can be trained to detect coronavirus infection within two weeks.
Furton said theme parks such as Walt Disney World and Universal Studios Orlando Resort may consider using dogs as another layer of protection.
“Certainly in Orlando with all the theme parks, it could be a very viable option. Rapid tests are probably good: you'll get results in 45 minutes. But these dogs will give you the answer in seconds,” he said.
Furton also added that there are currently three trained dogs in Tallahassee, trained in collaboration with Governor Ron DeSantis' Emergency Operations Center.
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These dogs are actively scanning premises in educational institutions for the presence of the virus. Another trained dog scans campus and classrooms.
“We use them mainly in areas where deep cleaning can be done. This could be a room in which a person who tested positive for coronavirus could have been,” Furton said.
At a sports facility, he said, dogs can detect the virus if people are at a social distance of 6 feet (about 2 meters) from each other.
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