COVID-sniffing dogs are traveling on tour with Metallica, Black Keys
Detection K9. “We basically screen anyone that has access to the backstage, so the crew, talent and management, and so on.”When touring with musicians, the dogs stays in luxury hotels and sometimes — like with the rockers of Tool, who are on the road now — even get to ride on the tour bus. “Other artists might have a driver that transports the dogs in their own vehicle from show to show,” Johnson told The Post.But the peace of mind that these canine detectives can provide doesn’t come cheap.“Costs vary from $5,000 per day for an individual event to significantly lower for ourextended services, such as teams embedded with artists or organizations,” Johnson said.In pre-Omicron variants of COVID, Johnson’s dogs would approach a line of people and after smelling their hands or feet, sit down in front of anyone they believed to be infected.But as Omicron accumulates more in the bronchial passages and not in the sweat glands, it means the dogs now sniff out people’s worn masks.