COVID-19 detection dog helps screen visitors at Doctors Hospital of Sarasota
Dog detecting COVID-19 at hospital
and last updated 2021-04-28 23:25:26-04
SARASOTA, Fla. â Doctors Hospital of Sarasota had the first COVID-19 patient in the state, and now they have a new way to help detect the virus thanks to a COVID-19 sniffing dog.
Buffy, the two-year-old yellow lab, is trained to sniff out COVID-19.
Doctors Hospital of Sarasota training video
After hospital visitors go through the temperature check and initial COVID screening questions, Buffy sniffs the visitor. If she detects COVID-19 she will lay down.
Just last week buffy detected her first positive visitor who immediately took a rapid test and learned they did have COVID.
COVID-19 detection dog helps screen visitors at Florida hospital
Dog detecting COVID-19 at hospital
By: WFTS Staff
and last updated 2021-04-28 23:47:13-04
SARASOTA, Fla. (WFTS) Doctors Hospital of Sarasota had the first COVID-19 patient in the state, and now they have a new way to help detect the virus thanks to a COVID-19 sniffing dog.
Buffy, the two-year-old yellow lab, is trained to sniff out COVID-19.
Doctors Hospital of Sarasota training video
After hospital visitors go through the temperature check and initial COVID screening questions, Buffy sniffs the visitor. If she detects COVID-19 she will lay down.
Just last week buffy detected her first positive visitor who immediately took a rapid test and learned they did have COVID.
Healthcare workers who treated Florida s first COVID-19 patient receive vaccine
Doctors Hospital of Sarasota respiratory therapists and nursing staff who cared for the first COVID-19 patient in the state got the Moderna vaccine on Thursday.
and last updated 2020-12-24 17:42:49-05
SARASOTA, Fla. â Respiratory therapists and nursing staff at Doctors Hospital of Sarasota got the Moderna vaccine on Thursday.
This happening nearly 10 months to the day that Florida s first COVID-19 case was diagnosed at the Sarasota hospital in late February.
Staff says itâs been an emotional roller coaster of a year, but getting the vaccine on Christmas Eve is the perfect gift of hope.