COVID-19 vaccine and Guillain-Barré syndrome: let's not leap to associations

Michael P Lunn^{1

2}, David R Cornblath³, Bart C Jacobs^{4

5}, Luis Querol⁶, Peter A van Doorn⁴, Richard A Hughes¹, Hugh J Willison⁷

Affiliations

¹ 1 Centre for Neuromuscular Disease, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK.
² 2 Department of Neuromuscular Disease, Institute of Neurology, University College London, WC1N 3BG, UK.
³ 3 Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ 4 Department of Neurology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
⁵ 5 Department of Immunology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
⁶ 6 Department of Neurology, Hospital de la Santa Creu I Santa Pau, 8025, Barcelona, Spain.
⁷ 7 College of Medicine, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.

Comment

Michael P Lunn et al. Brain. 2021.

. 2021 Mar 3;144(2):357-360.

doi: 10.1093/brain/awaa444.

Michael P Lunn^{1

2}, David R Cornblath³, Bart C Jacobs^{4

5}, Luis Querol⁶, Peter A van Doorn⁴, Richard A Hughes¹, Hugh J Willison⁷

¹ 1 Centre for Neuromuscular Disease, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK.
² 2 Department of Neuromuscular Disease, Institute of Neurology, University College London, WC1N 3BG, UK.
³ 3 Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ 4 Department of Neurology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
⁵ 5 Department of Immunology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
⁶ 6 Department of Neurology, Hospital de la Santa Creu I Santa Pau, 8025, Barcelona, Spain.
⁷ 7 College of Medicine, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.

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Epidemiological and cohort study finds no association between COVID-19 and Guillain-Barré syndrome.
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