Defining causality in COVID-19 and neurological disorders

Affiliations

• ¹ NIHR Health Protection Research Unit for Emerging and Zoonotic Infection, Liverpool, UK.
• ² Neurology, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK.
• ³ Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
• ⁴ Clinical Neurosciences, Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
• ⁵ Wessex Neurosciences Centre, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
• ⁶ Institute of Psychiatry Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London, London, UK.
• ⁷ Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.
• ⁸ Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, UK.
• ⁹ Encephalitis Society, Malton, UK.
• ¹⁰ Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK.
• ¹¹ Department of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ¹² Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
• ¹³ Neurology, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK.
• ¹⁴ Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK.
• ¹⁵ MRC CTU at UCL, Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, University College London, London, UK.
• ¹⁶ Department of Neurology, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, UK.
• ¹⁷ NIHR Health Protection Research Unit for Emerging and Zoonotic Infection, Liverpool, UK benmic@liv.ac.uk.