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Experts rip California pilot program testing COVID-sniffing dogs on schoolchildren | Faster, cheaper and more environmentally friendly than antigen tests, public health official says, but high false positive rate. "May be traumatizing" for some kids, doctor warns. The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) wants to bring airport screening procedures to public schools in the Golden State — not to search for weapons, narcotics or explosion-prone batteries, but for an endemic virus that poses little risk to children. Researchers affiliated with the department and Kaiser Permanente shared the results of their dog-sniffing pilot program to detect COVID-19 in 27 unnamed "volunteer schools" in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics Monday.