Do People With Glasses Have a Covid-19 Edge?

What we know about eye barriers and the virus

Alexandra Sifferlin
Medium Coronavirus Blog
3 min readSep 16, 2020

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A new study published today in the journal JAMA Ophthalmology suggests that daily glasses wearers might be less susceptible to Covid-19. While the findings are compelling for people who wear glasses, don’t get too excited just yet. The study is very small and only really shows that in a sample of 276 people with…

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Alexandra Sifferlin
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Health and science journalist. Former editor of Medium’s Covid-19 Blog and deputy editor at Elemental. TIME Magazine writer before that