The Forgotten Fight Against COVID-19: Are You Protecting Your Phone?

(CBS Local)- In the last few months, COVID-19 has drastically changed our norms. While everyone is social distancing, masking up and wiping down every door knob in a three-mile-radius, what about the germ magnets we all keep glued to our finger tips; our cell phones. Cell phones have always been a haven for germs, in fact the average cell phone contains eight to ten times as many germs as a toilet seat. As we face this invisible enemy how can we take steps to keep our phones as sterile as possible while cleaning supplies remain difficult to come across in many areas of the county? Fortunately there are several options available that won’t leave you at the mercy of finding the last remaining case of wipes on your next trip to the grocery store. One of these options is the Aeris Copper phone case. This product was developed by three recent college graduates who were looking to give people a passive way to protect their phones from COVID. These efforts resulted in the development of a process by which a phone case could be coated in copper and become “inherently anti-pathogenic.” In layman’s terms, copper is naturally antiviral and will kill almost everything it comes in contact with. While these cases are coated in copper, they don’t inhibit your phone’s cellular abilities and remain sleek enough to slide into your pocket. In an interview with CBS Local about the product co-founder Nick O’Brien said, “A lot of people hear copper ...
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