{"id":247023,"date":"2021-03-18T12:30:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T16:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=247023"},"modified":"2021-03-18T12:30:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T16:30:41","slug":"nascar-enlists-dogs-to-detect-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nascar-enlists-dogs-to-detect-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Nascar Enlists Dogs To Detect Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnascar-enlists-dogs-to-detect-covid-19%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=247023&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1809.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>NASCAR introduced plans to try out a new type of Covid-19 screening using specially trained dogs at Sunday\u2019s Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Trained canines will be used in order to check for Covid-19 among essential workers before Sunday\u2019s Folds of Honor Quik Trip 500. The goal is to prevent the spread of the virus early on in the event and the process will be used as a trial run. Nascar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nascar.com\/news-media\/2021\/03\/16\/covid-detecting-dogs-to-get-trial-run-in-screening-for-cup-series-race-at-atlanta\/\">stated<\/a>, \u201cIt\u2019s the latest development in an evolving process and one that could present an efficient, highly accurate and cost-effective supplement to the existing procedures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think that these dogs and this capability is going to allow us to rapidly confirm that all of those people entering the essential footprint on Sunday \u2014 that\u2019s race teams, that\u2019s NASCAR officials, that\u2019s the vendors that work inside the garage \u2014 all those folks are COVID-free or not,\u201d said Tom Bryant, NASCAR managing director of racing operations. \u201cThe ability to do that has kind of been the math problem that we have continuously tried to solve since March of last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group of dogs comes from 360 K9 Group, which has training areas in Anniston, Alabama, and New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Two different groups of dogs will examine workers. In less than 30 seconds per individual, the dogs should be able to tell if Covid-19 is detected and make their handlers aware of their discovery.<\/p>\n<p>If Covid-19 is detected in someone by one of the dogs, the person will be separated from other groups of people and undergo \u201ccomprehensive secondary screening\u201d by the American Medical Response Safety Team\u2019s top doctors in order to check if they can work at the race on Sunday. Nascar noted that the K9 screening method will not be utilized in order to check for Covid-19 in Cup Series drivers or any of the spectators that arrive.<\/p>\n<p>Bryant is a 20-year U.S. Army veteran and is familiar with the capability of dogs to locate bombs and weapons in the military. With the support of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, dogs have also been deployed in order to find citrus canker, which is a disease that can damage crops near Bryant\u2019s home in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are amazing,\u201d Bryant said. \u201cThis gives us essentially an ability to test that essential population on race day and know right away that those folks who have cleared this enhanced screening process with a very high degree of confidence are COVID-free. We\u2019ll learn from what we do Sunday, and we\u2019ll figure the ways to best employ this capability moving forward to ensure that we\u2019re keeping the population as safe as we can, keeping the least amount of risk in the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 360 K9 Group states that clinical studies prove dogs can use the same bio-detection methods that they use in order to find harmful diseases on crops in order to detect Covid-19 in human beings. They report that dogs can achieve this detection at an accuracy rate of 98%.<\/p>\n<p>With Nascar fans and employees eager to get back to the track, this new method could be a way to move the community towards a sense of community more efficiently and safely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs much as things are getting better, it\u2019s still very much a challenge,\u201d Bryant said. \u201cSo this tool is going to help us as the virus evolves, we\u2019re evolving with our approach to how we minimize exposure and create the safest possible environment to race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve heard the drivers and everybody in the industry talk about the energy and the sense you get and the feeling you get when you\u2019ve got all the fans right there, enjoying the action. That\u2019s what we\u2019re going to get back to, and I\u2019m a big optimist that we\u2019re much closer to getting back to that than we were. I\u2019m really excited for the day when that comes, and this is a tool that can help us get closer to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span>member<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR introduced plans to try out a new type of Covid-19 screening using specially trained dogs at Sunday\u2019s Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway this weekend.Trained canines will be &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893544,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}