COVID-19-sniffing dog on staff at Florida hospital
Buffy the yellow Labrador retriever detects visitors with the coronavirus at Doctorâs Hospital of Sarasota.
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Buffy lays down next to the scent wheel, a tool used by Southeastern Guide Dogs to train her in scent detection. The canisters contain inactivated coronavirus samples. [ Courtesy of Doctors Hospital of Sarasota ]
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Three days a week, Buffy greets visitors at the entrance to Doctors Hospital of Sarasota. If they grant permission, she sniffs their feet seeking a whiff of active COVID-19 infection.
Few decline the offer when they see the yellow Labrador retriever with a wagging tail. People generally donât love going to a hospital, said CEO Robert Meade, but, âWho doesnât love labs?â
COVID-19 detection dog helps screen visitors at Florida hospital
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Meet Buffy! Doctors Hospital of Sarasota using yellow Labrador to help screen for COVID-19 Staff Report © Mike Lang, Sarasota Herald-Tribune During a demonstration for the media on Wednesday, Buffy lies down at the feet of a volunteer who had a deactivated sample of COVID-19. Doctors Hospital of Sarasota showed off its latest tool for screening visitors for COVID-19. Meet Buffy, a 2-year-old yellow Labrador retriever from Southeastern Guide Dogs. Laska Parrow, a trainer from Southeastern Guide Dogs, began training Buffy in July and has been at Doctors Hospital since the end of March. According to Parrow, dogs in the guide dog program rely mostly on their vision, but Buffy tended to use her nose more than her canine peers, so she was selected for a scent detection study. Dogs in the scent training program are taught to signal when they detect changes in a person’s immune system. In training, the dogs are approximately 95% effective at detecting COVID-19 in a