Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/gCXknzkakOU   This novel coronavirus is not transmitted from mother to infant during late-term pregnancy.  British investigators studied 19 pregnant women infected with CoVid19 within 2 weeks of delivery.   Of the 19 women, 84% were symptomatic with disease.   One woman required critical care; there were no maternal deaths.  89% were delivered by c-section and 42% were pre-term deliveries with a mean gestational age of 36.5 weeks.    No CoVid19 was found in amniotic fluid, cord blood, breastmilk, or neonatal throat samples.  This lack of vertical transmission is similar to studies of SARS and MERS during pregnancy.   This tiny, preliminary study is heartening.  More studies of women infected earlier in gestation must now be completed.   https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.06.20032144v1.full.pdf   #covid19 #coronavirus #pregnancy #verticaltransmission