What The Study Did: Researchers in this observational study examined the association between wearing eyeglasses daily and susceptibility to COVID-19.
Authors: Yiping Wei, M.D., Ph.D., and Jianjun Xu, M.D., Ph.D., of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University in Nanchang, China, are the corresponding authors.
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(doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2020.3906)
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