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.
