Correction to: Journal of Neurology https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-020-10141-w

The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The correct information is given below.

Third sentence of the section “Meta‑analysis” should read as

Meta-analysis of all nine studies showed that COVID-19 patient with pre-existing CeVD had higher odds of poor outcomes compared to better outcomes with a pooled OR of 2.67 (95% CI 1.75–4.06; p ≤ 0.00001), with minimal heterogeneity between studies (I2 = 12%; Tau2 = 0.05; Chi2 = 9.10) (Fig. 2).