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General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: jmyrlefuller on February 25, 2021, 03:43:09 am

Title: GLASSES-WEARERS UP TO THREE TIMES LESS LIKELY TO CATCH CORONAVIRUS, STUDY SUGGESTS
Post by: jmyrlefuller on February 25, 2021, 03:43:09 am

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/glasses-coronavirus-covid-contacts-study-b1805314.html

By Samuel Osborne
February 22, 2021

People who wear glasses could be up to three times less likely to be infected by coronavirus, a study from India has suggested.

In a non-peer reviewed study published on the website medRxiv, the researchers studied 304 people (223 male and 81 female) at a hospital in northern India over two weeks last summer. The patients were aged between 10 and 80 and had all reported Covid symptoms.

The researchers found (…) the risk of contracting Covid-19 was two to three times lower among those who wear glasses.

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Title: Re: GLASSES-WEARERS UP TO THREE TIMES LESS LIKELY TO CATCH CORONAVIRUS, STUDY SUGGESTS
Post by: jmyrlefuller on February 25, 2021, 03:45:17 am

This study, based in India, concurns with a JAMA study published back in September.

Title: Re: GLASSES-WEARERS UP TO THREE TIMES LESS LIKELY TO CATCH CORONAVIRUS, STUDY SUGGESTS
Post by: mountaineer on February 25, 2021, 01:32:24 pm

Just think, if you wear glasses and you have type O blood, you could be even less likely to catch the 'rona!

Title: Re: GLASSES-WEARERS UP TO THREE TIMES LESS LIKELY TO CATCH CORONAVIRUS, STUDY SUGGESTS
Post by: PeteS in CA on February 25, 2021, 02:55:51 pm

A or the probable reason is that glasses wearers are less likely to touch their eyes. The same would be true for someone wearing a mask for long time periods and touching their mouths and noses.

Title: Re: GLASSES-WEARERS UP TO THREE TIMES LESS LIKELY TO CATCH CORONAVIRUS, STUDY SUGGESTS
Post by: jafo2010 on February 27, 2021, 09:25:17 am

I wore glasses from age 3 on until I was about 40, and no longer needed them.  I would say that wearing glasses does not reduce the frequency one touches the eye or the corner of the eye.  Glass wearers still reach up and rub the eye if it itches, or one has glop in the corner of the eye near the tear duct.

I do believe taking a quality vitamin/mineral supplement will help reduce the threat of being infected with COVID.  Americans are suffering from deficiencies in many different nutrients.  Our food has become crap over time with little to no nutritional value.  You must take vitamin and mineral supplements to remain healthy and prolong your life.