Has Quarantine Made Your Eyes Worse? Quarantine Myopia is Real!
We are only just beginning to understand the long-term health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the direct consequences of the virus, researchers are beginning to study the effects of social distancing, mandatory quarantines and home confinement. In a recent study published in JAMA Ophthalmology,* researchers reported the yearly prevalence of myopia (nearsightedness) in over 100,000 children from 2015-2020. They found a huge increase in the number of kids wh