The Impact of Corona Virus Disease-2019 on Outpatient Neurology
Mustafa Al-Chalabi, Qasem Alshaer, Lara Zakarna, Jetter Robertson, Georgios Manousakis and Malik Ghannam
In December 2019, unexplained cases of pneumonia
emerged in Wuhan, China, which were found to be
secondary to the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. On
March 11, 2020, the WHO declared the Coronavirus
Disease 2019 (COVID-2019) outbreak, a pandemic.
Neurological complications of COVID-19 are not
uncommon. Neurologists are used to uncertainty; they
were able to adapt to the rapidly evolving changes while
fighting this pandemic. Despite the negative impact of
COVID-19 pandemic on nearly all medical specialties and
Neurology is no exception, it has served as a catalyst in
advancing a tool that has long been struggling to thrive,
telemedicine.
