Get sniffed! German dogs are used to detect Covid-19 in concertgoers

Get sniffed! German dogs are used to detect Covid-19 in concertgoers

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norman lebrecht

September 17, 2021

The Lower Saxony Ministry of Science in Hanover has called in the Bundeswehr to supply dogs that will sniff people for the Coronavirus before letting them in to concert halls, opera houses and other places of entertainment.

Ten specially trained animals have returned a 92 percent efficiency rate in detecting the virus.

They are being tried out in Hanover in the state’s ‘Back to Culture’ initiative.

If successful, this could be a sniff of the future.

 

Comments

  • Gustavo says:

    Dogs are carnivores and not vegans. That is a serious problem when planing their large-scale use in a woke society.

    Dogs are the result of selective breeding, i.e. dogs are genetically engineered.

    Dogs shit on our pristine digitised electric cities.

    Dogs are far more efficient in finding dead birds under wind turbines than humans.

    Perhaps we are just too dogmatic… 😉

    • Amos says:

      If possible you know even less about dogs than you do about science.

      • Gustavo says:

        So you’re dog was obviously created by some human-like God, cannot be the result of artificial selection, eats soja protein only, uses a toilet, and refuses to search for dead birds under wind turbines so that humans can believe they are producing clean energy to save the planet?

        Well that’s what I call science.

  • Music fan says:

    The idea is not as wacky as it seems. Dogs have been trained to assist handlers with epilepsy and diabetes. They can literally sniff when a seizure or blood sugar crisis is imminent. Being able to detect COVID would be child’s play – or puppy play.

  • Pianofortissimo says:

    Covid has succeeded in all fronts, until Rintintin came around…

  • José Bergher says:

    This very promising, inexpensive canine technology should be immediately and mandatorily applied world-wide to every single concert hall, rehearsal hall, opera house, theater, circus, night club, orchestra, chorus, club, place of worship, stadium, gym, school, college, university, whorehouse, discotheque, supermarket, store, library, zoo, park, clinic, hospital, medical laboratory, hospital, cemetery, beach, road, street, hotel, building, private lodging, private and public office, public bathroom, port, airport, train station, airplane, ship, train, bus, taxi, private vehicle, ferry, and ambulance.

  • Peter says:

    Can they sniff child molesters, vegans, socialists and members of Die Grünen as well? These are people I’d far less like to be around than people with covid.

  • Alexander Graham Cracker says:

    Sure beats Q-Tips so far up the nose that your eyes hurt.

  • Paulo says:

    I bet the dogs are only for the cheaper seats.

  • Drazen says:

    Wiener Staatsoper next,
    Bevollmächtigter Beamte will be Kommissar Rex, of course.

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