Sec. 394. Sense of Congress regarding the use of working dogs to detect early stages of diseases
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It is the sense of Congress that— the ongoing research effort conducted by the Department of the Army, in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania, titled Training Aid Delivery Device 2.0 Training Support for COVID-19 Detection, is exploring the effectiveness of using scent detection working dogs to detect the early stages of diseases, including the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); this research effort will soon complete Phase 2 and has shown promising results, including an accuracy rate of 89 percent in COVID-19 detection from t-shirt samples; and it is important that the Department of Defense funds Phase 3 of this research effort to determine whether the use of working dogs is a feasible method of responding to emerging disease threats in a low-cost, low-burden, timely, and widely applicable manner.