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Editorial
. 2020 Jul;40(4):383-388.
doi: 10.1111/opo.12708. Epub 2020 Jul 6.

COVID-19 and the eye

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Editorial

COVID-19 and the eye

John G Lawrenson et al. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt. 2020 Jul.
No abstract available

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Figure 1
Forest plot of the prevalence of presumed conjunctivitis in hospitalised patients with COVID‐19. The Freeman‐Tukey Double Arcsine Transformation was used to stabilize the variances prior to pooling using fixed and random effects models.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Forest plot of the proportion of positive tests from conjunctival swab/tear samples in hospitalised patients with COVID‐19.

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