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Dear Editor, A novel coronavirus, named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), emerged at the end of 2019 and resulted in a rapidly spreading acute respiratory illness epidemic in Wuhan, China. The World Health Organization (WHO) termed this severe respiratory illness Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Since then, COVID-19 has become a pandemic and has affected over 2 million individuals in more than 200 countries and resulted in more than 135,000 deaths worldwide Clinically, COVID-19 is primarily a respiratory disease marked by fever, cough, and shortness of breath, and in a small percentage of cases, it can lead to severe respiratory complications and death. However, as the number of cases of COVID-19 grows globally and understanding of the disease is unfolding, there are hints that it might have a neurologic component as well.