Cordy Alpers, 15, plays with her family’s kitten, Artie, at their home in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021. Cordy wears a mask at school, where she finds there is less space for social distancing than last year. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette) Cordy Alpers, 15, helps her dad, Dan […]
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Wearing costume contact lenses for Halloween? Think about safety and don’t harm your eyes
Costume contact lenses are hard to resist on Halloween. Just pop a couple of contacts into your eyes and your face transforms into a monster, a demon, a corpse or a cat. For about $20 a pair, the lenses can make your eyes look anything but human. Decorative lenses, which […]
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Best places to buy contact lenses online that are cheap and high quality
Contact lens shopping can be an expensive enterprise, and many of us shy away from finding cheaper options in the fear they can be harmful to eye health. But often you can find the same brand of lenses for cheaper online than in an opticians. A number of factors contribute […]
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One million downloads of contact tracer for England and Wales
Users will be told to self-isolate if the app determines they are at high risk of being infected More than one million people have downloaded the government’s contact-tracing app for England and Wales within its first day of release. NHS Covid-19 instructs users to self-isolate for 14 days if it […]
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England and Wales get smartphone contact tracing for over-16s
Users will be told to self-isolate if the app determines they are at high risk of being infected People living in England and Wales are being urged to download the government’s contact-tracing app following its official release. NHS Covid-19 instructs users to self-isolate for 14 days if it detects they […]