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Can COVID Spread Mom-to-Baby in Pregnancy?

  • January 25, 2021

A study of 64 pregnant women who were infected with coronavirus shows that no vertical — mom-to-baby — transmission of COVID-19 occurred with anyone in the study.  While the position of the placenta may provide fetal protection in utero, the researchers found unexpectedly low transference of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies from mother to child and no infant in the study tested positive for COVID-19, researchers said. "This study provides some reassurance that SARS-CoV-2 infections...