Retina in the Age of COVID-19

Coronavirus Disease 2019–Related Health Disparities in Ophthalmology with a Retrospective Analysis at a Large Academic Public Hospital

“…Telemedicine remains a less prevalent form of delivering eye care in most facilities, unlike other areas of medicine, and has significant limitations. Sudden painful or painless loss of vision, especially in monocular patients, new cases of retinal tumors or cancers, retinopathy of prematurity, recent surgical patients, and more all require physical examination of the eye [33]. Ophthalmic disparities will prevail when barriers to care from social determinants of health exist.…”