COVID spread from mothers to babies in womb caused brain damage, says study

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