Nope, it’s not like that.
The dogs come to the schools weekly and work to detect cases in empty classrooms, auditoriums, cafeterias and gymnasiums, Mederiros said. If Covid is detected, the authorities tell the health nurse who relays the information to the people affected.
When he first had the idea of bringing the dogs into the school, he wanted to assure parents and community members they were not going to line up all the kids and have the dogs go up and down the line.
"They come while students are in school, it's really not disruptive or intimidating," Medeiros said. "These were not drug sniffing dogs."