Improved infrastructure, stockpiled personal protective equipment and a better understanding of how to provide care should have ophthalmic practices in a healthier economic position during the next wave of COVID-19.
The unknowns of COVID-19 made practicing medicine difficult when it first affected the United States in March. Practices were closed as national and state departments of health struggled to adapt to the unprecedented effects of the virus.
Some practices were closed, and owners did not know how long the new conditions would keep them from practicing medicine or serving their
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