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posted by martyb on Saturday August 29 2020, @04:25PM   Printer-friendly

Mother transmitted COVID-19 to baby during pregnancy, UTSW physicians report:

A pregnant mother who tested positive for COVID-19 transmitted the virus causing the disease to her prematurely born baby, UT Southwestern physicians report. Both were treated and recovered.

The case, detailed in an article published last month in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, adds to a growing body of evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus can be transmitted in utero. It also underscores the importance of limiting COVID-19 exposure for pregnant women.

[...] In the case described in the paper, a woman who was 34 weeks pregnant visited the emergency room with signs of premature labor and was admitted to the COVID unit at Parkland Memorial Hospital when she tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. While she did not have the typical respiratory symptoms associated with COVID-19, she did have a fever and diarrhea, which suggested possible viral infection.

[...] The woman, who did not know how she acquired the virus, remained hospitalized because of her COVID-19 diagnosis. Three days after admission, her water broke. Following an eight-hour labor in early May, she gave birth to a healthy 7-pound, 3-ounce girl.

[...] About 24 hours after birth, the newborn developed a fever that spiked, and she also showed signs of respiratory distress, including an abnormally high breathing rate and lower levels of oxygen in her blood. Sisman and her colleagues ran tests for viruses and bacteria. While other tests came back negative, a COVID-19 test was positive at both 24 and 48 hours after birth.

"At that time, the knowledge we had was that transmission doesn't occur in utero, so we really weren't expecting that at all," says Sisman.


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @06:30PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @06:30PM (#1043860)

    It is called evidence based medicine. They dont use any prior knowledge or reasoning at all, just wait for a rct for every little thing.

    They actually proved parachutes don't work using their "science":

    Conclusions: Parachute use did not reduce death or major traumatic injury when jumping from aircraft in the first randomized evaluation of this intervention. However, the trial was only able to enroll participants on small stationary aircraft on the ground, suggesting cautious extrapolation to high altitude jumps. When beliefs regarding the effectiveness of an intervention exist in the community, randomized trials might selectively enroll individuals with a lower perceived likelihood of benefit, thus diminishing the applicability of the results to clinical practice.

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30545967/ [nih.gov]

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 29 2020, @08:16PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 29 2020, @08:16PM (#1043923) Journal

    I remember a full page spread on that story - funny as could be.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @10:29PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @10:29PM (#1043955)

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday August 29 2020, @11:59PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 29 2020, @11:59PM (#1043984) Journal

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26769034/ [nih.gov]

    Results: All 50 falls-25 with the use of a parachute, 25 without a parachute-were successfully performed. Head injuries (right hemisphere p = 0.008, left hemisphere p = 0.004), cervical trauma (p < 0.001), thoracic trauma (p < 0.001), lumbar trauma (p < 0.001), pelvic trauma (p < 0.001), and hepatic, spleen, and bladder injures (p < 0.001) occurred more often in the control group. Only the pneumothoraxes showed no statistically significant difference between the control and parachute groups.

    Word of caution, however, the study lacks the double blind setup and may be biased.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday August 30 2020, @01:21PM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Sunday August 30 2020, @01:21PM (#1044162) Homepage
    You'll be telling me that airbags don't reduce car accident mortality if activates after admission to the hospital next.
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