Picking your nose makes you three times as likely to catch Covid, study suggests The latest from BawdenTom 🖋:
A study of hospital healthcare workers found that nose pickers were nearly three times as likely to catch
as non nose pickers – with 17.3 per cent of nose pickers getting the virus compared to 5.9 per cent among those who refrained, according to the study, published in the journalThe researchers said the study suggests that picking your nose might also make it more likely that you catch the common cold, although that is a theory that has yet to be tested.
And they point out that, unappealing as the habit may be, it is something that most of us do. Nearly 85 per cent of the people in their study said they picked their nose whileThe researchers said they expected that nose picking would increase the risk of catching Covid by transferring virus that may have been picked up by fingers into the nose, because it is a key entry point for the virus.
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