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Coronapod: COVID and pregnancy - what do we know?

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Is the Status of Infection in a Mother's Blood Transferring to the Baby?

One question was how a mother's immunity transfers to babies. Thiss if a mother is infected with a virus and goes through the course of the disease, the anti bodies in her blood to they transfer over to the foetus. And is the baby then protected? We have a little bit of data on that we still need to understand a little better. The levels that they found are lower than some other respirtory viruses, but perhaps that's sufficient, perhaps not.

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