![]() ![]() ![]() Yes, they can serve as that important in-between keeping your bare hands from touching an infected surface-and given enough time, viruses will die on copper. However, although copper is in fact antimicrobial, these tools don’t appear to be the magical devices they claim to be. Coming from a range of brands (including some you may have heard of before, like the Peel Touch Tool or the Keysmart CleanKey, and plenty you likely haven’t), they all look roughly the same and offer the same promise: a device for opening doors and pressing buttons that is naturally antimicrobial. ![]() Now, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, sponsored posts for a new field of brass and copper “touch tools” are intermingled among those for masks and hand sanitizer. Pre–COVID-19, my Instagram feed was a steady stream of my friends, my friends’ kids, and my friends’ meals, with ads for startup kitchen gear and drop-shipped “designer” goods mixed in between. ![]()
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