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Laura Miers

Laura Miers

@lauramiers · Twitter ·

@danaparish @oliver_phil We are absolutely being punked! “Bell's palsy increased after the COVID-19 outbreak, rising from 75.3% in the pre-COVID-19 era to 83.6% after the COVID-19 outbreak.” I remember when Justin Bieber got Ramsay-Hunt & his wife had a stroke. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11058340/

JKMS: J Korean Med Sci. 2024 Apr 16;39(16):e140. doi: 10.3346/jkms.2024.39.e140
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Bell’s Palsy and Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome: A Multicenter Retrospective Study
Min Young Kwak 1,2,*, Ho Yun Lee 1,3,*, Se A Lee 1,4, Junhui Jeong 1,5, Jae Ho Chung 1,6, Jin Kim 1,2, Beom Cho Jun 1,7, Seung-Geun Yeo 1,8, Sang Hoon Kim 1,8,✉, Jong Dae Lee 1,4,✉