Risk of ischemic stroke in patients with COVID-19 compared with influenza

What The Study Did: This observational study compares the rate of ischemic stroke among patients with COVID-19 compared with influenza in two New York hospitals.

Authors: Babak B. Navi, M.D., M.S., of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2020.2730)

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