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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => COVID-19 => Topic started by: katieHaylor on 04/01/2021 10:13:29

Title: Is there a link between wearing glasses and coronavirus?
Post by: katieHaylor on 04/01/2021 10:13:29

Berwyn asks:

Did I hear a radio report (on BBC Radio5Live?) that Chinese doctors had noticed that the proportion of spectacle-wearing Covid patients was considerably lower than that found in the general population?

Title: Re: Is there a link between wearing glasses and coronavirus?
Post by: alancalverd on 04/01/2021 11:51:06

Age and wisdom are preventive.

And the eye has been shown to be an entry point for the virus. Given the quantity of muck I wipe off my specs several times a day (to say nothing of the imprint of an airgun pellet in an old pair of plastic lenses) I'm eternally grateful for myopia!