COVID-19 practice protocols may remain after pandemic ends

The American Academy of Ophthalmology has helped physicians reduce the risk for SARS-CoV-2 transmission in their practices, and some safety measures may be here to stay.
“At Mass General Brigham hospitals in Boston, nurses in COVID units were no more likely to be infected than in COVID-free units. That is because the protocols we recommended also for ophthalmologists really work,” James Chodosh, MD, MPH, associate director of cornea and refractive surgery service at Mass Eye and Ear and the Edith Ives Cogan professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, told Healio/OSN.
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