COVID spread from mothers to babies in womb caused brain damage, says study
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Researchers at the University of Miami reported on Thursday what they believe are the first two confirmed cases in which the SARS-CoV-2 virus crossed a mother's placenta and caused brain damage in the infants they were carrying.
Doctors previously had suspected this was possible, but until now, there was no direct evidence of Covid-19 in a mother's placenta or an infant's brain, the team told reporters at a news briefing
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Merline Benny, MD; Emmalee S. Bandstra, MD; Ali G. Saad, MD; Roberto Lopez-Alberola, MD; Gaurav Saigal, MD; Michael J. Paidas, MD; Arumugam R. Jayakumar, PhD; Shahnaz Duara, MD, Maternal SARS-CoV-2, Placental Changes and Brain Injury in 2 Neonates, Pediatrics, https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2022-058271
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