A recent poll has found that the majority of Americans are worried about touching cash and coins out of fear they could carry coronavirus, said Fortune. The 600-person survey found that 54 percent have this concern, and 60 percent plan to make more use of contactless payments in the future. One might be mindful, though, that the survey was conduced by online payments company Rapyd, which would likely see this as good news.

For those wondering, scientists believe that coronavirus can indeed lurk on cash and coins, but the probability of contracting the virus from a bill is very low. Not that cash is anything close to sanitary, mind you: a 2019 study concluded that pretty much anything we use to make payments, whether coins or notes or even cards, is riddled with germs. Payment cards were actually found to be the dirtiest, with an average germ score of 285; bills, despite their reputation for being covered in feces, cocaine and (apparently) dog spittle, were actually much cleaner than cards, with an average germ score of 160.
Coins were the cleanest of all physical payment forms, with an average germ score of 136, which nonetheless is 10 times higher than the score of a clean surface off of which one could theoretically eat. Dimes were the dirtiest coin, and quarters were the cleanest.