Face mask — check. Goggles — check ... still tempted to engage in a likely risky but all-too-common habit: Nose picking. In a study of hundreds of hospital health care workers in the ...

“If I have a mask on, I’m not going to be able to pick my nose or bite my nails, which is my issue,” said Scott C. Roberts, assistant professor of infectious diseases at Yale School of Medicine.

Writing in the PLOS One journal, the team concluded: "Subsequently, nose picking healthcare workers ... She supports the return of face masks in health settings and the return of close monitoring ...