VM brings you the latest information from optical companies and organizations responding to the coronavirus. Chicago-based Q-Vision Optics, which produces LouisLuso Eyewear, now offers three-ply face masks, KN-95 face masks, face shields, nitrile gloves, hand sanitizer and sanitizing wipes on its website. Ken Yoon, CEO, initially started importing PPE from South Korea and China to help the health departments in local Chicago, and now the company is able to supply PPE to several industries including its own optical customers. Interested customers can visit www.qvisionoptics.com or email PPE@qvisionoptics.com.

Studies have concluded that the coronavirus can live on surfaces up to nine days or more. One person’s sneeze can put the virus on a public floor that is later stepped on by hundreds of people who carry it on their shoes back to their home or workplace. The Shoe Cover Dispenser from US Ophthalmic provides a solution to avoid such contamination.

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