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

A. H. Ayesha Lavell; Joeri Tijdink; David T. P. Buis; Yvo M. Smulders; Marije K. Bomers; Jonne J. Sikkens

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0288352

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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

A. H. Ayesha Lavell,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam UMC location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2838-5099

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Joeri Tijdink,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department Ethics, Law and Humanities, Amsterdam UMC location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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David T. P. Buis,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam UMC location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Yvo M. Smulders,

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam UMC location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Marije K. Bomers,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam UMC location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Jonne J. Sikkens

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: j.sikkens@amsterdamumc.nl

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam UMC location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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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

A. H. Ayesha Lavell,
Joeri Tijdink,
David T. P. Buis,
Yvo M. Smulders,
Marije K. Bomers,
Jonne J. Sikkens

Published: August 2, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288352

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