• New York state has been severely affected by COVID-19 with 364,745 cases and 28,900 deaths reported as of May 24 2020.
• At the Weill Cornell Hospital, during the peak of the outbreak in April, 477 patients had been admitted with COVID-19, 230 patients were in intensive care.
• Several papers have been published on the New York clinical experience of COVID-19, including details of patient characteristics and neurological impact.^1,2