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Swypes Reports Phone Hygiene Is Healthcare’s Overlooked First Line of Defense

Swypes

Swypes is calling attention to a critical gap in healthcare hygiene: although hospitals and nursing homes enforce strict infection-control protocols, CDC figures and published research suggest mobile phones remain an overlooked risk in daily care settings, with one meta-analysis finding contamination on 84.5% of healthcare workers’ devices