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THE WASHINGTON POST – Habitual nose picking is associated with an increased risk of contracting the coronavirus, researchers in the Netherlands found. A new study, published on Wednesday in PLOS ONE, showed that nearly 85 per cent of 219 healthcare workers surveyed reported picking their noses with varying frequencies – monthly, weekly or daily. Of […] ....
Those who admitted picking their noses were 3.8 times as likely to catch the severe acute coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) as those who claimed that they didn t. ....
Habitual nose picking is associated with an increased risk of contracting the coronavirus, researchers in the Netherlands found. A new study, published Wednesday in PLOS ONE, showed that nearly 85 percent of 219 health-care workers surveyed reported picking their noses with varying frequencies - monthly, weekly or daily. Of those, about 17 percent contracted the coronavirus, compared with about 6 percent of those who said they did not engage in the activity. The risk was relatively the same for ....