The findings suggest that mothers who have had COVID-19, or asymptomatic exposure to the coronavirus, can provide some protection against the virus to their newborns through this antibody transfer. The authors of the new paper in JAMA Pediatrics hypothesize this may have implications for COVID-19 vaccines. Antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in the blood of pregnant women cross the placenta …
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The SARS COV-2 Coronavirus is mutating. What are variant we know about this new B117 strains?
Scientists are still gathering information. So far, the B117 strain appears to spread much more easily than previous strains of COVID-19 – some data shows that it spreads up to 70% more easily – probably due to a mutation in how the virus enters human cells. “When the host range for the virus is expanded, the numbers and the opportunity …
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