Abstract

The results of the SERPICO-19 study [1] published in EClinicalMedicine suggest that regardless of comorbidities or treatments, patients exposed to the Sars-CoV-2 virus should have fundus evaluation, even though no visual complaints are described. In the SERPICO-19 study, 54 COVID-19 patients exhibited retinal findings, with retinal hemorrhages or cotton wool spots observed in 9,25% and 7,4%, respectively, of the subjects. As our previous publication in The Lancet [2] suggested, the retina may be a key place to study what happens to the rest of the body during and after the infectious course of COVID-19, as we are still trying to learn the extent of this new disease.

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