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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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.
Joan Bryden February 03, 2021 - 3:03 PM
OTTAWA - Senators have been presented with two starkly different descriptions of what it s like to receive medical assistance in dying in Canada: a beautiful, peaceful death or a painful end akin to drowning.
The duelling descriptions came from two doctors during testimony Tuesday night at the Senate s legal and constitutional affairs committee, which is scrutinizing Bill C-7.
The bill would expand Canada s five-year-old regime for medical assistance in dying (MAID) to include people who are suffering intolerably but not near the end of their natural lives.
Dr. Timothy Holland, a Nova Scotia MAID assessor and provider, said for patients the procedure is a relaxing drift into sleep.