The most-read stories of 2020

From the COVID-19 crisis to social unrest and a turbulent election, 2020 kept Americans closely following the news. Here are 20 AOA stories that were most read this year:
- Congress’ COVID-19 relief package recognizes optometry’s physician role
- Ready for routine care? AOA offers guidance for post-COVID-19 reactivation
- CDC: U.S. coronavirus spread expected, ‘disruption may be severe’
- Is it or isn’t it? Allergic conjunctivitis in a COVID-19 world
- U.S. declares public health emergency—what you need to know
- AOA challenges VSP plan to link doctor reimbursements to certain lenses and anti-reflective coating
- Resuming routines: Lessons from ‘Phase 1’ reopenings
- Doctors of optometry weigh how to hit the ground running once practices reopen
- AOA mobilizes for doctors in national response to pandemic
- FTC ignores Congress, AOA and other medical groups with flawed Contact Lens Rule changes
- IRS ruling on PPP loans could raise practices’ taxes, AOA pushing for fix in new COVID-19 bill
- 6 nutrition questions you should be asking patients
- 1-800 Contacts notifies patients not to wear AquaSoft lenses due to lens defect
- Senate's pandemic relief bill will help optometry practices nationwide; AOA to seek additional support
- VSP policy change may violate states’ patient protection laws
- First doctors of optometry notified of their federal loans to ease the economic pain of COVID-19 pandemic
- Billing for post-cataract glasses: What you need to know
- Evidence shows these 3 steps are crucial to stop virus spread
- Contact Lens Rule Modernization Act introduced in the U.S. Senate
- Be prepared: Contact Lens Rule changes take effect Oct. 16, access AOA resources
Doctors of optometry on how to enjoy Oct. 14 eclipse in a safe way
The AOA has a number of members-only resources for doctors of optometry to share with their patients who hope to view the Oct. 14 eclipse. The resources cover how optometrists can engage the public on seeing it safely.
‘Very close-knit community,’ Maui reckons with trauma of historic wildfires
AOA-member doctors in Maui describe shock and disbelief after the island community suffers the deadliest U.S. wildfire in over a century.
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