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Will coronavirus make mobile payment systems like Apple Pay, Google Pay mainstream?
Jefferson Graham USA TODAY
Published 7:25 AM EDT Mar 17, 2020
At the Cameron's Deli takeout restaurant in New York's Westchester County, owner Albert D'Alisa just hung up new signs urging patrons to pay with contactless methods, like mobile pay.

"We’re encouraging everybody to pay electronically," he says. Because in a coronavirus era, "nobody wants to touch cash anymore. The less contact, the better. Cash is filthy."

For years, experts have been telling us this.

We touch a dollar with our germs, pass it on to someone else who passes it another, and that was before there was a coronavirus. A study by Mastercard and the University of Oxford once found that the average banknote was home to 26,000 types of bacteria.