Google search spike of "My Eyes Hurt" in United States after solar eclipse: an analysis and future prevention

Ethan Waisberg¹, Joshua Ong², Andrew G Lee^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Ophthalmology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. ew690@cam.ac.uk.
² Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
³ Center for Space Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
⁴ Department of Ophthalmology, Blanton Eye Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
⁵ The Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
⁶ Departments of Ophthalmology, , Neurology, and Neurosurgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
⁷ Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.
⁸ University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
⁹ Texas A&M College of Medicine, Bryan, TX, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA.

Ethan Waisberg et al. Eye (Lond). 2024 Oct.

. 2024 Oct;38(14):2677-2679.

doi: 10.1038/s41433-024-03145-7. Epub 2024 May 21.

Ethan Waisberg¹, Joshua Ong², Andrew G Lee^{3

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¹ Department of Ophthalmology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. ew690@cam.ac.uk.
² Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
³ Center for Space Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
⁴ Department of Ophthalmology, Blanton Eye Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
⁵ The Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
⁶ Departments of Ophthalmology, , Neurology, and Neurosurgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
⁷ Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.
⁸ University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
⁹ Texas A&M College of Medicine, Bryan, TX, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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