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Reviewed by Ningli Wang, MD, PhDThe onset of the pandemic had a profound effect on medicine and eye care worldwide, and Ningli Wang, MD, PhD, director of Beijing Tongren Eye Center, described the impact of COVID-19 on ophthalmology in China.Ophthalmologists as a group had the highest risk of contracting the COVID-19 virus because of the close proximity between clinicians and patients during ocular examinations. To define the risk, Wang and his colleagues sent a cross-sectional case-control questionnaire to 10 hospitals to investigate the incidence and distribution of symptomatic virus in eye professionals in Wuhan, China, between February 26 and March...
