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More than a year after COVID-19 surfaced in the United States, the pandemic rages on, with 433,000 deaths and counting in the United States as of early February. While the situation remains dire we can only hope the virus is past its peak there’s finally a light at the end of this long, dark tunnel.
Two vaccines, produced by Pfizer and Moderna and both in the form of a double dose, were authorized and recommended to prevent COVID in December. While the rollout is moving slower than expected as of the end of January, about 25 million people had received at least one dose of a vaccine, almost a month behind the projected timeline there’s reason to believe that the dissemination is gaining momentum. Three more vaccines are in the midst of large-scale clinical trials, and the President Joe Biden’s administration has named combating the coronavirus its highest priority.
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James K. Aikins, Jr., MD, FACOG, FACS
New Brunswick, February 4, 2021 – Expanding its team of highly specialized professionals in the treatment of routine, rare and complex cancers of the female reproductive system, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH), a RWJBarnabas Health facility, have named James K. Aikins, Jr., MD, FACOG, FACS chief of gynecologic oncology at Rutgers Cancer Institute and chief of gynecologic oncology services at RWJUH, New Jersey s largest academic medical center. He will also serve as Program Director for the Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
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
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