I ’ve seen somethings concerning how dirty cellphones are—and how they can worsen interpersonal disease transmission. I wonder if there’s any advice on how to keep it clean (and how useful would it be).
Yeah, this is something I worry about as well. It’s probably a good idea to clean your phone with hand sanitiser regularly, but unless you’re doing it multiple times per day (which nobody is) it’s still going to be a big problem. AFAICT most people never clean their phones at all.
If you are the only person touching your smart phone and not give it to other people that should reduce a lot of the potential of them as a vector. If you in addition don’t press it against your face, it’s not clear to me why it would make sense to worry about it.
If you grab your mobile with your dirty hands, then wash them, and then use your device again, you just recontaminated them; and if you never clean its surface (how do we do it effectively?), it’ll accumulate pathogens. This seems to be a serious problem in hospitals.
(I’m not sure if I follow your reasoning; it apparently implies that, if you never shake hands with someone else, you never have to worry about washing them. Of course, it does reduce the potential for transmission.)
You aren’t just touching other peoples hand directly. You are usually touching doornobs, light switches and other objects that other people are also touching.
I ’ve seen somethings concerning how dirty cellphones are—and how they can worsen interpersonal disease transmission. I wonder if there’s any advice on how to keep it clean (and how useful would it be).
Yeah, this is something I worry about as well. It’s probably a good idea to clean your phone with hand sanitiser regularly, but unless you’re doing it multiple times per day (which nobody is) it’s still going to be a big problem. AFAICT most people never clean their phones at all.
If you are the only person touching your smart phone and not give it to other people that should reduce a lot of the potential of them as a vector. If you in addition don’t press it against your face, it’s not clear to me why it would make sense to worry about it.
If you grab your mobile with your dirty hands, then wash them, and then use your device again, you just recontaminated them; and if you never clean its surface (how do we do it effectively?), it’ll accumulate pathogens. This seems to be a serious problem in hospitals.
(I’m not sure if I follow your reasoning; it apparently implies that, if you never shake hands with someone else, you never have to worry about washing them. Of course, it does reduce the potential for transmission.)
You aren’t just touching other peoples hand directly. You are usually touching doornobs, light switches and other objects that other people are also touching.