{"id":945,"date":"2020-09-17T18:49:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T01:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=945"},"modified":"2020-09-17T18:49:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T01:49:36","slug":"association-of-daily-wear-of-eyeglasses-with-susceptibility-to-coronavirus-disease-2019-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/17\/association-of-daily-wear-of-eyeglasses-with-susceptibility-to-coronavirus-disease-2019-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Association of Daily Wear of Eyeglasses With Susceptibility to Coronavirus Disease 2019 Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Eyeglass wearers were underrepresented among COVID-19 patients, providing some evidence that eyeglasses could provide some protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection. A cohort study of COVID-19 patients conducted in Suizhou, China found that 6% of patients wore eyeglasses for extended periods. In comparison, a previous study estimated that 32% of the general population wore glasses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Zeng et al. (Sept 16, 2020). Association of Daily Wear of Eyeglasses With Susceptibility to Coronavirus Disease 2019 Infection. JAMA Ophthalmology. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamaophthalmol.2020.3906\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamaophthalmol.2020.3906<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eyeglass wearers were underrepresented among COVID-19 patients, providing some evidence that eyeglasses could provide some protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection. A cohort study of COVID-19 patients conducted in Suizhou, China found that 6% of patients wore eyeglasses for extended periods. In comparison, a previous study estimated that 32% of the general population wore glasses. Zeng et&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/17\/association-of-daily-wear-of-eyeglasses-with-susceptibility-to-coronavirus-disease-2019-infection\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[38],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}