A platform that serves as a global and immediate communication tool to activate the exchange of knowledge and to be able to carry out a rapid assessment of the effects that certain infectious diseases can cause to pregnant women?
When we think that we know all the symptoms that COVID-19 infection can cause to babies and pregnant women, new complications appear that are discovered to be associated with the virus.
Despite the nearly 100 million cases of Covid recorded to date worldwide, there is no strong evidence that the virus that causes the disease, SARS-CoV-2, poses a threat to fetuses.
The World Health Organization explains that although some pregnant women are at increased risk of developing severe Covid-19, it is not yet known for sure whether an infected pregnant woman can transmit the virus to the baby during pregnancy or delivery.
Although something more is learned every day about how the coronavirus behaves among children, with the existing data after a year living in a pandemic, it is known that vertical transmission during pregnancy is rare, as is newborn infection at the time of delivery or the days after, with skin-to-skin contact with the mother and breastfeeding.
It is not the first investigation nor will it be the last that studies the effects that the coronavirus can have on the fetus to know how it affects it and thus know how to protect it. So far, few cases of vertical mother-child transmission have been found, so it has been determined that infection in the maternal uterus is rare although possible and, if the baby is infected, it does not usually present symptoms, although there are serious exceptions.
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