Three years ago, I wrote an article, 'Myopia: The other pandemic,' (Commentary, 6/21/20) discussing the rapid rise of myopia in the world. While COVID-19 appears to be receding in our rearview mirrors, the increase in the incidence of myopia continues unabated and is projected to affect 4.8 billion people, or about half the world's population, by 2050. This is an update. While regular eyeglasses and contact lenses have been the traditional tools to address myopia, recent research points to these interventions actually having the reverse effect, that is, they may actually worsen this vision abnormality.

https://opinion.inquirer.net/164555/myopia-intervention-and-prevention

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