Forgot to wash hands, now scared for corona

[123flower]

So I normally wash my hands before eating and I also did this time when eating bread. But then after my first bite i realised my cellphone was in my bedroom and I always play on my cellphone when eating bread. I use my left hand to play on my cellphone and my right hand to eat my bread. So I went to my bedroom to get my cellphone which was charging and took it and charged it in the livingroom. Then I started eating again and when I almost finished my bread I realised I havent washed my hands after touching my dirty cellphone and charger. I’m scared for corona. I don’t know if you can get corona like this. Am I still safe?

 

[Richard T]

It would be very unlikely that you would get COVID from just touching your phone and then touching what you are eating. First you would have to touch something that had COVID. In public that could be anything. For instance, you touch a shopping cart that the last person to use it had covid. You touch the cart as you push it and you get a little covid, but then you touch all kinds of other items and by the time you drive home there might be very little left. Not too mention if you got the 1 cart in a 100 or more that had covid, that would certainly be unlucky. Anyway, here is an article that explains how it is harder but not impossible to get it from surface contact. What’s the Risk of Catching Coronavirus From a Surface?

 

[Jeshu]

Why worry about Covid it is just a flu.

 

[com7fy8]

I put a little bit of hand sanitizer on paper or cloth and my hands, then wipe my phone, but being careful not to get the sanitizer into any electrical openings or into cracks around the buttons.