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This musical group found an alternative method to prevent infections backstage at their shows. Know the name of the musicians and how the particular testing works.
During 2020, the world stopped in the face of the same threat: the coronavirus pandemic. coronavirus. Cinemas, theaters and massive events around the world had to close their doors to the public to take extreme care and prevent infections. While everything tries to get back to normal, there is a music band that decided to innovate and use dogs to detect positive cases during their concerts. Here we tell you who it is!
We talk about Metallica, the American thrash band made up of James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett y Robet Trujillo. The group decided to hire Bio Detection K9, a company specialized in training animals to find those people who may be infected. The measure does not have to do precisely with the public, but with the members of the backstage responsible for the shows to work in the best way.
How does it work? All personnel who are part of the Metallica team behind the scenes must enter the concert venue with their corresponding authorization. To do so, they will need to use the mask for 10 minutes on the stadium grounds, and then place it in a line. Thus, the dogs will approach to perform the recognition. In case of detecting a positive, the animal will sit down to mark it.
The effectiveness is very high, since -according to official data from the company responsible for the tests- the precision reaches the 99% validation, comparing it with medical studies. After checking hands and feet with his nose, the results ensured that this internal measure took good care of them. “So far the dogs have been keeping him away. There was no positive”, said the person in charge of the operations, John Peets.
Also, the tests showed that, most of the time, it detects asymptomatic cases much faster than what a PCR can achieve in a matter of hours. The training of the animals is supervised by Jerry Johnson, himself air force vet who had experience in Iraq and Afghanistan. Will other bands be encouraged to follow Metallica’s protocols?
