
Wearing glasses was inversely associated with COVID-19 in an unadjusted analysis, but the association did not remain when adjusting for confounders.
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Wearing glasses was inversely associated with COVID-19 in an unadjusted analysis, but the association did not remain when adjusting for confounders.

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