{"id":107074,"date":"2020-05-14T15:42:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T22:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/virologist-hospitalized-with-coronavirus-believes-he-got-it-through-his-eyes"},"modified":"2020-05-14T15:42:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T22:42:17","slug":"virologist-hospitalized-with-coronavirus-believes-he-got-it-through-his-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/virologist-hospitalized-with-coronavirus-believes-he-got-it-through-his-eyes","title":{"rendered":"Virologist hospitalized with coronavirus believes he got it through his eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/virologist-hospitalized-with-coronavirus-believes-he-got-it-through-his-eyes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old virologist and epidemiologist, who has responded to multiple outbreaks around the world, got sick about three days after a flight to his home in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a mask on, I had gloves on, I did my normal wipes routine \u2026 but obviously, you can still get it through your eyes,\u201d Fair said on the \u201cTODAY\u201d show from his hospital bed. \u201cAnd of course I wasn\u2019t wearing goggles on the flight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s one of the three known routes of getting this infection that we just don\u2019t pay a lot of attention to; we tend to pay attention to the nose and mouth because that is the most common route,\u201d he said. \u201cBut you know, droplets landing on your eyes are just as infectious.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 42-year-old virologist and epidemiologist, who has responded to multiple outbreaks around the world, got sick about three days after a flight to his home in New Orleans. \u201cI had a mask on, I had gloves on, I did my normal wipes routine \u2026 but obviously, you can still get it through your eyes,\u201d Fair [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}