“…Some cases of polyneuropathy caused by other types of coronavirus have been published in the literature [7 , 8] and some authors support a potential neurotropic role of the virus during the active infection [9] . In the past months a substantial number of case reports of polyneuropathies consistent with GBS during or after infection by COVID-19 have been published [3 , 10 , [11] , [12] , [13] , [14] , [15] , [16] , [17] , [18] , [19] , [20] , [21] , [22] , [23] (see supplementary Table 1 and all case report references in the supplementary appendix). To note, the great majority of the cases reported (86.5%) were older than 50 years with a male predominance.…”