In a cohort of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Suizhou, China, the proportion of those infected who were daily eyeglass wearers was lower than the general population.
“At present, people pay more attention to wearing masks and home isolation and may not pay enough attention to frequent hand washing and avoiding hand-eye touch. Our research confirms the importance of hand washing and to avoid hands touching eyes in preventing COVID-19,” study co-author Yiping Wei, MD, PhD, told Healio/OSN.
Two hundred seventy-six patients with COVID-19 were enrolled in the cohort study.
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