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Eye: The Hard-hit Victim of COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the entire world to a standstill. Wearing of mask and time-to-time sanitization have become a customary daily practice. Additionally, as the outdoor activities and movements have been curtailed, concept of work from home is being widely adopted. Hence, the screen ex...

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Autores principales: Gaur, Aman, Sarkar, Prathama
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PUBLISHED BY KNOWLEDGE E 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9185198/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35765644
http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/jovr.v17i2.10805
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the entire world to a standstill. Wearing of mask and time-to-time sanitization have become a customary daily practice. Additionally, as the outdoor activities and movements have been curtailed, concept of work from home is being widely adopted. Hence, the screen exposure time has considerably increased. All these conditions have directly or indirectly impacted the health of eye. This article emphasizes on the repercussions of this pandemic on eye health. It also focuses on the precautions that may be taken to prevent them as well as some solutions to manage them.
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spelling pubmed-91851982022-06-27 Eye: The Hard-hit Victim of COVID-19 Pandemic Gaur, Aman Sarkar, Prathama J Ophthalmic Vis Res Perspective The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the entire world to a standstill. Wearing of mask and time-to-time sanitization have become a customary daily practice. Additionally, as the outdoor activities and movements have been curtailed, concept of work from home is being widely adopted. Hence, the screen exposure time has considerably increased. All these conditions have directly or indirectly impacted the health of eye. This article emphasizes on the repercussions of this pandemic on eye health. It also focuses on the precautions that may be taken to prevent them as well as some solutions to manage them. PUBLISHED BY KNOWLEDGE E 2022-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9185198/ /pubmed/35765644 http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/jovr.v17i2.10805 Text en Copyright © 2022 Gaur and Sarkar. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9185198/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35765644
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