SHARE The Global Consortium Study of Neurologic Dysfunction in Covid-19 says hospital patients with clinically diagnosed neurological signs are six times more likely to die than those without. Read More "Very early on in the pandemic it became apparent that a good number of people who were sick enough to be hospitalised also developed neurological problems," said Dr Sherry Chou, lead author and associate professor of critical care medicine, neurology and neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre (UPMC). "A year later we are still fighting an unknown invisible enemy and, like in any battle, we need intel – we have to learn as much as we can about neurological impacts of Covid-19 in patients who are actively sick and in survivors."