FILE - A Bristol County Sheriff's officer leads his Covid K-9 Hunter to sniff a hallway at Wood Elementary School in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan.
19, 2022. (Allison Dinner/Bloomberg via Getty Images)A recent study out of France found that trained dogs were able to detect COVID-19 just as well, or even better, than a regular COVID-19 lab test.
Results of the study, which were published in the peer-reviewed journal Plos One on June 1, showed that dogs detected the virus with 97%-100% accuracy by smelling a participant’s sweat.
To compare, the nasal swab COVID-19 tests that were used in the study were only 84% accurate compared to the results yielded by the dogs.