Covid

Although we have already a year since the coronavirus was declared a pandemic, there are still many questions about this virus and how it affects each person according to their age and living conditions.

A few days ago we echoed the viral experiment of a mother, who had shown with a simple home test the presence of antibodies two weeks after receiving the two doses of the coronavirus vaccine.

Antibodies that protect against Covid-19 can be transferred from mothers to babies while they are in the womb, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian researchers published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Just a few days ago we pointed out that the University of Oxford had launched the first trial to assess the safety and immune responses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in children and adolescents, the first initiative of its kind.

With the progress in the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 in our country, there are many mothers who are breastfeeding their babies and are at high risk of contagion when in contact with infected people -such as , health professionals-, or they are people at high risk of complications. Not surprisingly, they are concerned about whether they can safely get vaccinated for themselves and their babies while still breastfeeding.

On December 27, the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 began in Spain, prioritizing risk groups and successively the rest of the population.

Update 10/28: When performing the second test 48 hours after birth, the result for Covid has been negative, which indicates that he is not infected, but has tested positive for IgG, revealing that he has antibodies. The mother probably transferred them to the baby through the placenta.

Pregnant women with Covid-19 can have symptoms of the disease for two months or more. This has been revealed by a study carried out in the United States, which indicates that the average time for symptoms to disappear was 37 days.