When WO created a Pop-up Poll to ask about whether eye care professionals have seen or heard or experienced any increase in bias—especially toward those in the Asian American Pacific Island community, the poll happened to be in the field at the same time that the Atlanta spa shootings occurred, in which eight people—six of them Asian or Asian American women—were killed.
Technology for sterilizing frames topped the new purchase list, with 75 percent of respondents saying that they added a new way of cleaning frames between patients.
Eighty-eight percent of respondents to a recent Women In Optometry (WO) Pop-Up Poll have already received at least one of their two injections for the COVID-19 vaccine.
A Women In Optometry Pop-up Poll that was launched prior to the availability of any COVID-19 vaccines and stayed open through New Year’s Day shows that a majority of respondents were planning on (or had already gotten) a COVID-19 vaccine.
In a recent Women In Optometry Pop-up Poll, nearly 51 percent of the respondents to our “Eating on the Run” questions said that they bring lunch from home to eat while they’re at work.