One of the key stages of any viral infection is initial access to the structure. While most of our structure is covered with skin, which is very effective at preventing viruses or bacteria from entering our body, much thinner “membranes” cover our digestive formula airways and eyes. The function of these thinner membranes is to allow external things like oxygen, food and, in the case of eyes, light, to penetrate our bodies. Unfortunately, viruses have learned to take advantage of those access points.
This is why epiT is designed to protect those access problems by wearing masks, goggles and protective clothing. However, while we might believe that the biggest attack in these regions comes from viral waste transmitted through the air as aerosols, the main means through which viral remains succeed in these weak problems is in fact through our hands. Hence the COVID-19 recommendation to wash your hands frequently, for 20 seconds or more, and avoid touching our faces.
It makes sense, then, that covering your eyes with glasses can offer greater protection, either against the virus that can be carried in other people’s breath, but also to prevent users from touching your eyes. In fact, as far as February, there were reports from other people who contracted COVID-19 by not protecting their eyes well in fitness facilities. It is also known that frame access issues (ACE-2 receptors) promoted through coronavirus are also provided in the eyes.
An essential component in interpreting any evidence from observational studies is that correlation (two things that happen together) does not necessarily mean causation (one thing reasons the other). To verify causation, a controlled verification or verification is now required.
Ideally, this would be limited to two teams of other thoroughly matched people, some dressed in glasses and others without glasses, to see which organization is the most commonly infected. The evidence from such a controlled trial will be much more potent than the evidence of an observational examination like that of the recent article.
It should also be noted that the authors of this study have known a number of weaknesses. It was a very small studio in a single place. Researchers’ knowledge for the general population was obtained here from a much older study of a pattern that was not exactly consistent (in terms of age, demographics and other factors) with their COVID-19 hospitalization pattern and they may simply not make sure that all other short-sighted people in the general population have also worn glasses for more than 8 hours a year. Day.
While this new study is very interesting, there are many reasons to distrust this outcome. We want more knowledge before we can give recommendations on how to dress with glasses next to our face masks.
Simon Kolstoe, Senior Lecturer in Evidence and University Ethics Advisor, University of Portsmouth
This article has been republished from The Conversation, a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Chinese researchers have found that other people who wear glasses appear to be less likely to get COVID-19. The authors of the study, published in JAMA Ophthalmology, noted that since the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan in December 2019, few eye-eye patients have been admitted to the hospital with COVID-19. To investigate further, knowledge of glasses’ clothing was gathered from all COVID-19 patients as a component of their medical history.
His small examination found that only 16 (5. 8%) of the 276 patients admitted with COVID-19 wore glasses for more than 8 hours a day. When they decided that all these patients were short-sighted, they then looked for the proportion of others with myopia (myopia) in Hubei province, where the hospital is located, and found that this figure was much higher (31. 5%), indicating that the proportion of hospital income from COVID-19 myopia was more than five times higher than would be expected of this population.
This is a desirable observation, however, as with all individual studies, the effects deserve to be treated with caution. Although eye coverage has been a vital component of non-public protective devices (PPE), the magnitude of the difference reported through this exam increases This does not mean that the effects may not be real, but we deserve not to start advising on large-scale behavioral adjustments (such as wearing glasses next to our face masks) until they have been independently confirmed. .
One of the key stages of any viral infection is initial access to the structure. While most of our structure is covered with skin, which is very effective at preventing viruses or bacteria from entering our body, much thinner “membranes” cover our digestive formula airways and eyes. The function of these thinner membranes is to allow external things like oxygen, food and, in the case of eyes, light, to penetrate our bodies. Unfortunately, viruses have learned to take advantage of those access points.
This is why epiT is designed to protect these access problems by wearing masks, protective goggles and protective clothing. What viral remains succeed in those weak problems is in fact through our hands. Hence the COVID-19 recommendation to wash your hands frequently, for 20 seconds or more, and avoid touching our faces.
It is logical that covering your eyes with glasses can offer greater protection, either against the virus that can be carried in the breath of others, but also to prevent users from touching your eyes. As of February, there were reports of other people becoming COVID-19 not adequately protecting their eyes in fitness facilities. Similar access problems in the framework (ACE-2 receptors) favored by coronavirus are also known to occur in the eyes.
An essential component in interpreting any evidence from observational studies is that correlation (two things that happen together) does not necessarily mean causation (one thing reasons the other). To verify causation, a controlled verification or verification is now required.
Ideally, this would be limited to two carefully paired teams of other people, some dressed in glasses and others without glasses, to see which organization is most often inflamed. The evidence for such a controlled trial will be much more potent than the evidence of an observational examination such as that of the recent article.
It should also be noted that the authors of this study have known a number of weaknesses. It was a very small studio in a single place. Researchers’ knowledge for the general population was obtained here from a much older study of a pattern that was not exactly consistent (in terms of age, demographics and other factors) with their COVID-19 hospitalization pattern and they may simply not make sure that all other short-sighted people in the general population have also worn glasses for more than 8 hours a year. Day.
While this new study is very interesting, there are many reasons to distrust this outcome. We want more knowledge before we can give recommendations on how to dress with glasses next to our face masks.
Simon Kolstoe, Senior Lecturer in Evidence and University Ethics Advisor, University of Portsmouth
This article has been republished from The Conversation, a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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