{"id":5292,"date":"2020-03-17T13:39:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T20:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5292"},"modified":"2021-03-02T13:40:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T21:40:09","slug":"can-the-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-affect-the-eyes-a-review-of-coronaviruses-and-ocular-implications-in-humans-and-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/17\/can-the-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-affect-the-eyes-a-review-of-coronaviruses-and-ocular-implications-in-humans-and-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Affect the Eyes? A Review of Coronaviruses and Ocular Implications in Humans and Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This study describes the ocular implications of human coronaviruses based on current evidence of animal coronaviruses and their associated ocular infections.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the authors emphasize the need for more research to confirm SARS-CoV-2\u2019s ability to infect ocular tissue and its pathogenic mechanisms, ophthalmologists and other HCWs should continue to use proper PPE to prevent possible transmission through ocular tissue.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seah &amp; Agrawal. (Mar 2, 2020). Can the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Affect the Eyes? A Review of Coronaviruses and Ocular Implications in Humans and Animals. Ocular Immun And Inflamm.<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/09273948.2020.1738501\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/09273948.2020.1738501<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This study describes the ocular implications of human coronaviruses based on current evidence of animal coronaviruses and their associated ocular infections.\u00a0 While the authors emphasize the need for more research to confirm SARS-CoV-2\u2019s ability to infect ocular tissue and its pathogenic mechanisms, ophthalmologists and other HCWs should continue to use proper PPE to prevent possible&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/17\/can-the-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-affect-the-eyes-a-review-of-coronaviruses-and-ocular-implications-in-humans-and-animals\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-5292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5293,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions\/5293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5292"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}