- An Analysis of 38 Pregnant Women With COVID-19, Their Newborn Infants, and Maternal-Fetal Transmission of SARS-CoV-2
- Analyzed the effects of SARS-CoV-2 on the mothers and infants, including clinical, laboratory, and virologic data, and the transmissibility of the virus from mother to fetus
- Analyzed the mother’s and the infant’s condition by case, such as the mother’s symptoms during pregnancy, use of medication and the child’s health condition, birth weight et. al.
- The presence of SARS-CoV-2 was evaluated in 6 of the 9 cases from amniotic fluid, breastmilk, umbilical cord blood, and neonatal throat swabs; all test results were negative.
- no evidence that SARS-CoV-2 undergoes intrauterine or transplacental transmission from infected pregnant women to their fetuses



Case Study: Maternal Coronavirus Infections and Pregnancy Outcomes 

- The test (RT-PCR) used to detect COVID-19 in this study is shown to be only 71% effective 
- This report had a small number of cases and incomplete clinical data

Smith College

In this study, four full-term infants were born to pregnant women who had COIVD-19 in Wuhan, China. None of the infants tested positive for the virus, or developed symptoms such as fever, cough, or diarrhea. In a past study, five infants who were born to mothers who had SARS (during the outbreak in the early 2000s) were not detected to have the virus. 

Infants Born to Mothers With a New Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Chen, Y., Peng, H., Wang, L., Zhao, Y., Zeng, L., Gao, H., &amp; Liu, Y. (2020). Infants Born to Mothers With a New Coronavirus (COVID-19). Frontiers in Pediatrics, 8. doi:10.3389/fped.2020.00104
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2020.00104/full%20

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