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Ever since I saw a some officials wearing safety glasses I've been wondering: is eye protection effective against coronavirus (or were these people paranoid abo

• seltzered_ 7y ago
  The eyes are a possible entry point for droplet transmission, so yes as it being part of other protections (mask, washing hands). Some have used/made face shields.
• pmoriarty 7y ago
  From a recent episode of This Week in Virology[1]: "Historically, in a lot of health care settings there was limited attention [to eye protection], and part of droplet protection, part of being protected when someone coughs or sneezes is protecting your eyes as well. Actually, going in to this I was pretty heavy on re-education at one of the hospitals about: if someone's on droplet, you gotta protect your eyes. Because influenza, you get that in your eyes you can get infected. SARS-CoV-2, you get that in your eyes you can end up with COVID-19. So eye protection is important as well." [1] - http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-593/ http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-593/ at about 1 hour and 58 minutes in to the program