摘要
Acute infectious conjunctivitis(AIC)is one of the most common communicable diseases encountered in acute hospital settings.Transmission exists long before COVID-19.Research showed COVID-19 infections were associated with AIC,as the most common ocular manifestations[1].Thus,an increase in AIC during COVID-19 is expected[2].However,personal hygiene practices and public health measures throughout COVID-19 negatively impacted the incidence of influenza and other upper respiratory tract infections,as for AIC[3].Our retrospective study extracted the data between July 2016 to June 2023,from the hospital communicable ocular diseases database.We aim to reveal the incidence of AIC across the pre-and post-COVID era in a local regional acute hospital.A total of 1512 patients with AIC were identified in the last 7 years across the pre-and post-COVID era.Monthly incidences of AIC over the past 7 years were plotted as a line chart(Figure 1A).
