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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @04:30PM (5 children)
This universe is defective. Can we trade it in?
(Score: 2) by looorg on Saturday August 29 2020, @04:35PM
I'm fairly certain the warranty expired a long time ago.
(Score: 1) by HammeredGlass on Saturday August 29 2020, @05:04PM (3 children)
Wrong?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @05:44PM (2 children)
Yes, the politicians that made this into such a disaster have been spared. Most unfortunate... There's no justice in this life! For them it's a feature, not a bug
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @06:44PM (1 child)
In the US, they are banking on November 3rd.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @10:08PM
Not much will happen. Almost all of congress will be reelected again. Voters won't let go of the monkey trap.
It's really freaky to see anybody support Trump. Such disgrace! Serious issues are not being addressed.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 29 2020, @04:59PM (6 children)
This surprises us, why? We already knew that Covid-19 virus can cross the blood-brain barrier. Now, it crosses the placental barrier. We also already knew that a lot of other things can get into baby's blood from the mother. Alcohol and various illicit drugs, caffeine, thalidomide, and more.
Hail to the Nibbler in Chief.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @06:30PM (4 children)
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":
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30545967/ [nih.gov]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 29 2020, @08:16PM (1 child)
I remember a full page spread on that story - funny as could be.
Hail to the Nibbler in Chief.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @10:29PM
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Republicrats think that everyone is stupid. I always thought it was a Dunning-Kruger thing, but if they win in 2020, I'll have to admit they might be on to something.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday August 29 2020, @11:59PM
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26769034/ [nih.gov]
Word of caution, however, the study lacks the double blind setup and may be biased.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday August 30 2020, @01:21PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday August 30 2020, @01:26PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @06:24PM
https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=43092¬e=&title=Vitamin+C+levels+in+patients+with+SARS-CoV-2-associated+acute+respiratory+distress+syndrome+ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @09:38PM (1 child)
I guess the magic vagina cannot protect from COVID. Zomg! Maybe right-wing pseudo-feminists can rage against this now instead of compiler error messages, especially since their claims of rampant sexual harassment on the part of AMAB programmers are falling apart and turning out to be fabrications and lies. Let them go sexually harass doctors instead of programmers.
Next you'll tell me that sticking my girl cock in a sex professional's girl vagina won't change my sexual orientation or cure AIDS! Well, thank goodness I don't have AIDS then, since it seems that the vagina and uterus are just a body parts without any magic properties! Who knew!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @09:58PM
Put down the crack pipe, Fusty.
(Score: 3, Funny) by sonamchauhan on Saturday August 29 2020, @11:14PM (1 child)
The mother was in the same room as the infant when it was delivered, right?
Right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2020, @08:30AM
No, the birth took place in open air. It wasn't air borne, it was air born.