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As if the pandemic was not scary enough, add a little bit of pregnancy on top of it and the pandemic instantly gets even more terrifying. Not only are you worried about catching the coronavirus, you also worry about how the virus affects your developing fetus. While there is some data on how the coronavirus affects pregnant women and their babies, so much is still yet unknown. Now that there are several COVID vaccines, people are also concerned about their safety for expectant or breastfeeding mothers..
Because pregnant people are more vulnerable to certain infections due to changes in immunity and body systems in addition to the possibility of passing the infection onto their baby, scientists are understandably curious about how COVID-19 will affect both expectant mother and the fetus. Will the baby be born with COVID-19 or pass along antibodies and confer some protection?
Pregnant women can pass on COVID-19 antibodies to newborns via placenta, mounting evidence suggests Women transfer more antibodies to their babies if they are infected earlier in their pregnancies, the study suggests. Most vaccines against the coronavirus are targetting the spike protein on the virus – which we know from older viruses and studies, is also a target for the immune system. Image: Wikimedia Commons
One of the many big questions scientists are trying to untangle is whether people who get COVID-19 during pregnancy will pass on some natural immunity to their newborns.
Recent studies have hinted that they might. And
Pregnant women can pass on COVID-19 antibodies to newborns via placenta, mounting evidence suggests
Women transfer more antibodies to their babies if they are infected earlier in their pregnancies, the study suggests.
Feb 03, 2021 12:48:32 IST
One of the many big questions scientists are trying to untangle is whether people who get COVID-19 during pregnancy will pass on some natural immunity to their newborns.
Recent studies have hinted that they might. And
new findings, published 29 January in the journal
JAMA Pediatrics, provide another piece of the puzzle, offering more evidence that COVID-19 antibodies can cross the placenta. What we have found is fairly consistent with what we have learned from studies of other viruses, said Scott E Hensley, an associate professor of microbiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the senior authors of the study.
Study: Newborns Get COVID-19 Protection From Previously Infected Moms newsmax.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newsmax.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Evidence Builds That Pregnant Women Pass Covid Antibodies to Newborns
A new study suggests that protective antibodies can be transferred through the placenta, and the baby may receive more of them if a mother is infected with Covid earlier in her pregnancy.
A woman in McAllen, Tex., who tested positive for Covid-19 while she was pregnant. Studies suggest that pregnant women infected with the coronavirus can pass antibodies to their babies. Credit.Carolyn Cole/Getty Images
Jan. 29, 2021
One of the many big questions scientists are trying to untangle is whether people who get Covid-19 during pregnancy will pass on some natural immunity to their newborns.