03/16/2021 15:01
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Updated 03/16/2021 3:01 PM
A health worker vaccinated against covid-19 in Florida, United States, gave birth to a girl with antibodies to the disease and, according to the doctors who verified it, it is
the first case that has been reported so far in the world,
local media indicated.
The girl's mother was 36 weeks pregnant when she received
the first dose of the Moderna vaccine
for being a health worker on the front line of the fight against coronavirus and
the girl was born three weeks later
, at the end of last January.
An analysis carried out on the umbilical cord showed that he had been born with covid-19 antibodies, according to what pediatricians Paul Gilbert and Chad Rudnick told the WBPF television channel in Palm Beach (southeastern USA), who are going to publish an article about the case in the medical journal MedRxiv.
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"As far as we know
this is the world's first reported case
of a baby born with covid-19 antibodies after his mother was vaccinated," Gilbert said.
The pediatricians analyzed the newborn's umbilical cord to see if the mother had passed on the antibodies, as happens with vaccines for other diseases, and they found that this had been the case, something that Rudnick considers important in the fight to protect children from the disease. disease of the current pandemic.
"This is just a small case of what are going to be thousands and thousands of babies born in the next few months to mothers who have been vaccinated" against covid-19, Rudnick said.
However, in the article that MedRxiv has accepted and is pending publication, pediatricians warn that there are some factors that indicate that newborns of vaccinated mothers
may still remain at low risk of infection.
"More studies are needed to determine how long this protection will last. You have to establish what level or how many antibodies a baby needs to have to have protection," Rudnick said.
Some large pharmaceutical companies are beginning to include pregnant women in their ongoing vaccine studies to learn more about the transmission of antibodies to babies, Gilbert said.
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