New reports raise possibility pregnant women can pass coronavirus to fetus, but risk is unclear
New reports raise possibility pregnant women can pass coronavirus to fetus, but risk is unclear.
A trio of scientific reports about Covid-19 infections in pregnant women raises concerns that the new coronavirus may be able to infect a fetus in the womb.
It remains unclear if that actually happens, how often it does if that’s the case, and what if any risk it poses to fetuses. And an editorial in the journal in which two of the reports were published cautioned against putting too much weight on the findings yet.
“Is it possible that SARS-CoV-2 can be transmitted in utero? Yes, especially because virus nucleic acid has been detected in blood samples” from newborns, David Kimberlin and Sergio Stagno of the University of Alabama at Birmingham wrote. “Is it also possible that
