The COVID-19 pandemic is now into its 10th month of impact on U.S. ophthalmologists and their patients.
We have experienced three waves of cases since March. The first wave peaked at about 37,000 cases a day in April and resulted in a near-complete shutdown of nonemergent eye care. Cataract surgery case volumes were down 96% in April, and even those practices that stayed open, like ours in Minnesota, were at 15% to 20% of usual clinic volumes, managing urgencies and emergencies only. The recovery was fortunately V-shaped and especially rapid for ophthalmology, but the typical practice lost at
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