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Nose-picking healthcare workers were more likely to catch COVID-19 during the pandemic than their colleagues who refrained, per Netherlands cohort study



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Why not to pick your nose: Association between nose picking and SARS-CoV-2 incidence, a cohort study in hospital health care workers 

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Nose-picking healthcare workers were more likely to catch COVID-19 during the pandemic than their colleagues who refrained, per Netherlands cohort study

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0288352

Article Title: Why not to pick your nose: Association between nose picking and SARS-CoV-2 incidence, a cohort study in hospital health care workers

Author Countries: The Netherlands

Funding: This work was funded by the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development ZonMw (S3 study, grant agreement no. 10430022010023 to M.K.B.) and the Corona Research Fund Amsterdam UMC. The funders were not involved in designing the study, data collection, analysis or interpreting the data, writing the manuscript or the decision to submit the article for publication.

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