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cord-291443-ff80mr2a	AlMutlak, Mohammed	Future of Corneal Donation and Transplantation: Insights From COVID-19 Pandemic	2020-08-19		.txt	text/plain	1587	79	55	Early on, in the pandemic, with little data available about this new disease and its effect on ocular tissue, eye bank associations around the world rapidly put into place new screening recommendations to reduce the yet unknown risk of donor-recipient transmission during corneal transplantation. 4 In the United States, the Eye Bank Association of America (EBAA) released its first screening recommendations on February 3, 2020. As COVID-19 restrictions were gradually lifted throughout the United States in May and June, elective surgeries including corneal transplantation procedures resumed and, according to the same EBAA survey, were at approximately 71% of their usual volume by the beginning of June (42 eye banks reporting) and 81% by the beginning of July (37 eye banks reporting). Donor testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), if performed, will further add cost and time to the distribution of corneal tissue while potentially providing a false sense of security because testing has not been validated for cadaveric samples and have varying rates of false-negative results.	./cache/cord-291443-ff80mr2a.txt	./txt/cord-291443-ff80mr2a.txt