Do you wear contacts? Switch to glasses to help stop virus spread eye doctors say
Focus on this, contact lens wearers of the world: To reduce the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19, experts suggest it's time to put your contact lenses on the shelf and dazzle the world with your frames. That's because wearing glasses can help you stop touching your face, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, a key way any virus is spread, including the novel coronavirus currently spreading across the world. Why contact lenses? Contact lens users not only touch their eyes to put in and remove their lenses twice or more a day, they also touch their eyes and face much more than people who don't wear contacts, said Dr. Thomas Steinemann, a clinical spokesperson for the American Academy of Ophthalmology. "You touch your eye and then you touch another part of your body," said Steinemann, an ophthalmologist at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. "You rub your eyes, then rub your face, scratch your face, put your finger...