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What if your COVID tests are expired?

13 Oct 2023

This article was originally posted in the Montreal Gazette....

Can you fool a COVID rapid test by putting Vaseline in your nostrils?

7 Jan 2022

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...

Some things to know about COVID rapid tests

30 Dec 2021

This article was originally posted in the Montreal Gazette

Humans Sometimes Get in the Way of Science

2 Apr 2021

I never expected to read the word “glooped” in a BBC article. An investigation by the BBC programme Panorama recently revealed troubling behaviour on the part of some technicians at one of the...

What Is the Optimal Length for a Quarantine?

24 Dec 2020

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette.

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