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Israeli researchers: COVID vaccine antibodies pass from pregnant mother to newborn
The level and type of antibodies were suggestive of “being able to sufficiently block the virus.”
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(March 16, 2021 / JNS) Israeli researchers have announced in a new study that antibodies produced from a COVID-19 vaccine can be passed from a pregnant mother to her baby.
The study by researchers from Hadassah University Medical Center, which has only been published in MedRxiv and thus not peer-reviewed, found that in 20 pregnant women in their third trimester who had received two shots of the Pfizer vaccine, the mothers and their newborns both had adequate levels of Immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies.