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01-09-2020 | Coronavirus | Letter to the Editor

May home confinement during the COVID-19 outbreak worsen the global burden of myopia?

Authors: Marco Pellegrini, Federico Bernabei, Vincenzo Scorcia, Giuseppe Giannaccare

Published in: Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology | Issue 9/2020

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The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that originated in Wuhan (China) has quickly spread all over the world. As of April 12, 2020, there have been with more than 1,600,000 confirmed cases and 100,000 deaths globally [1]. To restrict contact among individuals, governments have imposed unprecedented public health measures such as travel bans, workplace distancing, and schools closure. The aim of these measures is to reduce the size of the outbreak as well as its peak in order to decrease the amount of stress on healthcare systems. …

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Title: May home confinement during the COVID-19 outbreak worsen the global burden of myopia?
Authors: Marco Pellegrini
Federico Bernabei
Vincenzo Scorcia
Giuseppe Giannaccare
Publication date: 01-09-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keywords: Coronavirus
COVID-19
Published in: Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology / Issue 9/2020
Print ISSN: 0721-832X
Electronic ISSN: 1435-702X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00417-020-04728-2

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