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Officials Begin Task of Tracing Trump’s Contacts

White House news conference, Oct. 2, 2020. Georges Benjamin, MD, executive director, American Public Health Association. Amesh Adalja, MD, senior scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Baltimore, MD. Twitter: @ashishkjha, Oct. 2, 2020. Statement, Cleveland Clinic. Statement, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Statement, National Coalition of STD… Read More: Officials Begin Task of Tracing Trump’s Contacts »

Wear Contacts 24/7? You Risk Infection, Blindness

Despite the introduction of silicone hydrogels in the 1990s, overall corneal infection risk has held steady over decades, Schein said, affecting about one in every 2,500 lens wearers. But that risk is “at least 10-fold greater for those choosing to sleep with lenses in. So I discourage that practice whenever I can,” he added. As… Read More: Wear Contacts 24/7? You Risk Infection, Blindness »