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
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Doctors still making sacrifices as pandemic spreads
The FDA is authorizing vaccines to combat COVID-19. But doctors of optometry are still fighting to recover from conditions that limited the essential eye care they provide and to keep their staffs safe from COVID-19 itself, according to the third and final survey by the AOA Health Policy Institute on the profession and the pandemic.
AOA president: Successes amid very turbulent year
In an address to AOA’s House of Delegates Dec. 3, AOA President William T. Reynolds, O.D., described not only the challenges faced by members, but also how they persevered over the pandemic, social reckoning and a turbulent political season.