/oss/taxonomy/term/5922/all en /oss/article/covid-19/can-you-fool-covid-rapid-test-putting-vaseline-your-nostrils <p>This notion emerged after some partiers on a flight chartered by a private Quebec club allegedly planned to trick a COVID rapid antigen test to produce a negative result. Their idea was to prevent the swab from picking up the virus by providing a Vaseline barrier. Whether they actually tried this or just blathered nonsensically about Vaseline interfering with the test by “having no pH” isn’t clear, but it is extremely unlikely that this ruse would work. The test requires very few viral particles, and in any case, these would become embedded in the Vaseline.</p> Fri, 07 Jan 2022 21:32:06 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 8971 at /oss