COVID Sniffing Dogs Helped Out At Pinecrest Jazz Festival

PINECREST (CBSMiami) – It was the opening nighttime of the South Motors Jazz Series starring E-Street drummer Max Weinberg and his jazz team.

While the assemblage was required to disguise up, they did not request to amusement immoderate impervious of investigating oregon vaccination.

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“All we request you to cognize is that we person 2 COVID sniffing dogs,” said Michelle Hammontree.

Those 2 sniffing dogs were 2 adorable beagles.

“I thought they would beryllium overmuch bigger types of dogs,” said an attendant.

Noel and Buddy sniffed up to 500 people. They are trained to beryllium if they observe the virus.

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“Bioscent trains aesculapian detection dogs,” said Heather Junqueria, the laminitis of Bioscent.

She said they are 98 percent accurate.

“And successful immoderate cases, we recovered the dogs are picking up 3 to 5 days earlier PCR testing,” said Junqueria.

“They are trained to prime up compounds successful the body’s system. So they are trained disconnected an odor erstwhile idiosyncratic has COVID,” said Junqueria.

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Bioscent teamed up with Florida International University’s Global Forensic and Justice Center to supply Saturday’s harmless environment.

Jessica Vallejo