key: cord-283971-q5d3uza1
authors: von Oertzen, Tim J
title: COVID‐19 – neurologists stay aware!
date: 2020-05-27
journal: Eur J Neurol
DOI: 10.1111/ene.14365
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doc_id: 283971
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In December 2019 an epidemic outbreak of a new virus disease in the Chinese area of Wuhan was reported. The new disease caused primarily symptoms of a respiratory tract infection with cough, shortness of breath, and viral pneumonia. The clinical spectrum showed mostly mild symptoms with some patients developing bilateral pneumonia needing partly intensive care treatment and causing death(1). It became apparent, that this new disease was highly contagious, and – intensive care ‐ patients numbers were rapidly rocketing, overwhelming the capacity of local health care facilities.

and officially declared the COVID-19 pandemia (2) . As of today (19 th May), official numbers report more than 4,7 million cases worldwide, more than 315,000 death, and approximately 1,7 million patients recovered from the disease. And these numbers are reflecting only those being tested for SARS-CoV2 whereas for many reasons the number of worldwide affected people is thought be much higher.

This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved severe affected cases. Prospective data collection of large international multicenter cohorts will be necessary to fully understand the disease and its neurological involvement. We neurologists need to stay vigilant and aware on neuro-COVID-19, taking a joint effort to characterize the disease on scientific grounds. To facilitate this, the European Academy of Neurology developed the Ean NEuro-covid ReGistrY (ENERGY) for prospective data collection (ean.org).

Web-editor in chief, European Academy of Neurology References Accepted Article

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