Authors' response: Occupation and SARS-CoV-2 infection risk among workers during the first pandemic wave in Germany: potential for bias by Marvin Reuter, Mariann Rigó, Maren Formazin, Falk Liebers, Ute Latza, Stefanie Castell, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Karin Halina Greiser, Karin B Michels, Gérard Krause, Stefan Albrecht, Ilter Öztürk, Oliver Kuss, Klaus Berger, Benedikt MJ Lampl, Michael Leitzmann, Hajo Zeeb, Karla Romero Starke, Sabine Schipf, Claudia Meinke-Franze, Wolfgang Ahrens, Andreas Seidler, Bianca Klee, Tobias Pischon, Andreas Deckert Andreas Deckert, Börge Schmidt, Rafael Mikolajczyk, André Karch, Barbara Bohn, Hermann Brenner, Bernd Holleczek, Nico Dragano

“…The newspaper article cited by van Tongeren et al is misleading as it refers to a calendar date after our study period. Second, different motivation for testing due to economic hardship in case of a positive test result is an unlikely explanation, because Germany has a universal healthcare system, including paid sick leave and sickness benefits for all workers (3). …”
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