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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.
Whatâs in Your Prenatal Vitamin?
Doctors recommend them before, during and even after a pregnancy. But regulation is spotty and finding the right pill can be hard.
Credit.Eleni Kalorkoti
Published Feb. 3, 2021Updated Feb. 4, 2021
When I told my doctor that I was thinking of getting pregnant a few years ago, she advised me to start taking a prenatal vitamin right away. So I stopped by the grocery store on my way home and made for the supplement aisle. As I studied the array of options before me, I quickly grew overwhelmed.
I noticed that different brands contained slightly different concoctions of ingredients, with wildly different amounts in each. Each multivitamin extolled its benefits, but also bore the familiar disclaimer that its claims had ânot been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration,â which I found unsettling. Who, I wondered, was looking out for pregnant people?