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To identify common neurological complications in COVID-19 patients.

The novel Sars-CoV-2 virus was declared a Pandemic by WHO on March 11, 2020. Majority of the data published at this time brings into light the profound respiratory distress and cardiovascular outcomes however much is left to be discovered as far as neurological outcomes are concerned as suggested by anecdotal evidence and limited data.

We conducted a retrospective observational study from January 1, 2020 to April 30, 2020 on data collected from a multicenter health system based in Kansas City Metro area in United States. Composite neurological outcomes from the data included seizures (new onset), delirium (requiring medications), hemorrhagic and ischemic strokes (new onset, diagnosed > 48–72 hours after hospitalization).

Of the 346 people who tested positive for COVID-19, 89 (25.7 …