Epilepsy CurrentsDoes SARS-CoV-2 Cause Seizures and Epilepsy in COVID-19 via Inflammation or by Direct Infection?

A chart review of 81 million individuals yielded two matched groups of more than 150,000 patients each: one with COVID and the other with influenza. In these populations, the risk of seizures and epilepsy was higher in the COVID group. The HR of epilepsy after COVID compared with influenza was highest in individuals who were not hospitalized and in those under the age of 16.