As the omicron variant begins to fade, now comes word that COVID-19 could affect your vision.
That is especially important because an estimated 75,000 people in Washington have sight-stealing glaucoma. And, according to one doctor, half of them do not know it.
COVID-19 has long been known to make a body very sick. It turns out, it could make your eyes sick, too.That is the grim news Cathleen Kallmeyer got when she came to Evergreen Eye Care in the Swedish Hospital complex two years ago. She was told she would likely go blind in six short months.“Glaucoma is a group of diseases where the pressure inside the eye is too high,” Whitehead said. “And that high pressure damages the nerve in the back of the eye.
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