Could have sworn someone posted a proposal much like this on here, but if so, my search-fu is failing me.
Would have bet it was @David_A_Tucker …
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-16/coronavirus-news-dogs-may-help-solve-the-virus-testing-problem
dogs_hunt_carona.pdf (516.9 KB)
I posted the question on the Slack site. I referenced cancer-detecting canines and wondered if people could go through a dog-scan (as opposed to a cat-scan) to determine if they had coronavirus. Made sense to me that distinct odors might be in one’s breath since it’s a respiratory disease.
Everyone but you ignored my post completely. Hope this approach works out, because having your inner brains rubbed hard through the sinus with a long swab sounds unpleasant.
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This is a long article, but it discusses a test using a swab at the front of the nose instead of all the way at the back of the throat.
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Makes sense a lot of diseases do have their own scents. I remember reading a few scientific journals years ago with people trying various ways to do that with tests. Basically the idea of most of them was that the breath of someone sick would have a different profile depending on disease. There were some with mass spec or color changing papers. It’s interesting that something like that is so obvious to a dog that knows what to look for and we don’t currently have much in the way of testing like that. And some things are obvious smells to human as well but putting that into a reproducible test is entirely different.
This is one of the papers I remember reading. There were several others… At least 15 I think, that’s how many journal article references I needed for that paper I had to write.
https://jcm.asm.org/content/48/12/4426
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