Burden of Neurologic Health Care and Incident Neurologic Diagnoses in the Year After COVID-19 or Influenza Hospitalization.

Compared with a matched cohort of adults with a hospitalization or emergency department visit for influenza infection, those with COVID-19 had significantly fewer health care encounters for 6 major neurologic diagnoses over a year of follow-up. Furthermore, we found that COVID-19 infection was associated with a lower risk of an incident neurologic diagnosis in the year after infection.