DOs and DON’Ts in Ophthalmology during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Editorial
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https://doi.org/10.38179/ijcr.v1i1.26Abstract
The recent pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has spanned continents, races, and social constructs. It has caused mortality and morbidity around the world and left those unaffected, or unknowingly so, with constant anxiety from contracting the virus by one means or another. As such, habits have changed, roads have emptied, and hospitals have been overwhelmed. One of the first whistleblowers who tried to alert the medical community to a possible new outbreak was a young ophthalmologist in Wuhan, China, who unfortunately contracted the disease and died in February 2020. The following editorial aims to improve care in ophthalmology during the pandemic.
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