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80% of Hospitalized COVID Patients Have Neurological Issues

Patients with clinically diagnosed neurological symptoms associated with COVID-19 are six times more likely to die in the hospital.

Visits to pediatricians dropped substantially—both well-child and sick visits—during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Monoclonal antibodies are available for outpatients with risk factors for progression to severe COVID-19 illness. The treatment is administered via infusion, and it can prevent hospitalization and reduce emergency department visits.

An international group of collaborators led by researchers at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh have identified a genetic cause of a rare neurological disorder marked by developmental delay and loss of coordination, or ataxia.

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Dr. Sherry Chou is associate professor of critical care medicine, neurology and neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC. She is the principal investigator of the Global Consortium Study of Neurologic Dysfunction in COVID-19, which found that patients with clinically diagnosed neurological symptoms associated with COVID-19 are six times more likely to die in the hospital than those without the neurological complications.