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Is there a link between wearing glasses and coronavirus?

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Is there a link between wearing glasses and coronavirus?
« 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?
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Re: Is there a link between wearing glasses and coronavirus?
« Reply #1 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!
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