Can Dogs Sniff COVID-19?

For some 15,000 years, dogs have been our hunting partners, workmates, helpers, and companions. Could they also be our next allies in the fight against COVID-19?

According to UCSB professor emeritus Tommy Dickey and his collaborator, BioScent researcher Heather Junqueira, they can. And with a review paper published in the Journal of Osteopathic Medicine (JOM), they have added to a small but growing consensus that trained medical scent dogs can effectively be used for screening individuals who may be infected with the COVID-19 virus.