Mercola
Children may have avoided COVID-19 during the pandemic shutdowns, but spending more time indoors with more digital screen time has been particularly hard on young eyes. Doctors are reporting that kids’ vision has been severely impacted with increased myopia (near-sightedness).
An international team from the U.S. and China discovered the rates of myopia, or near-sightedness, among young children between 6 and 13 years old is now three times higher during the pandemic than in the previous five years, especially among 6- and 8-year-olds. Scientists say half the population of the world may be myopic by 2050.
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