Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx_Y7rvx7nF/ If you think it’s your toilet, you’d be dead wrong.  The autumn is here, and we all are spending more time indoors at home and in the kitchen.  It’s also the time when more germs are flying around including not only CoVid, influenza, and RSV, but the old standbys strep staph, and e.coli.  Don’t forget too, that there’s plenty of fungus among us. This being the case, it’s a great time to review data from the National Sanitation Foundation after they determined germ counts on the items around our home that we constantly touchh.  The survey was completed to help all of us avoid contaminating ourselves by reminding us just how many germs pollute the things we love to touch. The filthiest was your dish sponge or dish rag at 362,631,038 bugs per gram.  The cleanest was your car’s steering wheel with only 4 germs per 10 m2.  Between these two were 28 items with decreasing microbiologic contamination.  Between these two were 28 items you constantly touch with decr