COVID-19: the downtrend of African American stroke patients receiving mechanical thrombectomy

JNIS Editor-In-Chief, Felipe C. Albuquerque, interviews Sami Al Kasab and Alejandro Spiotta, both from the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA. They discuss the Stroke Thrombectomy and Aneurysm Registry data showing an “alarming downtrend in mechanical thrombectomy rates in African American patients during the COVID-19 pandemic”. Read the related article online (https://jnis.bmj.com/content/early/2021/01/06/neurintsurg-2020-016946) and in the March issue of JNIS. Please subscribe to the JNIS Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get episodes automatically downloaded to your mobile device and computer. Also, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the JNIS Podcast iTunes page: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/jnis-podcast/id942473767