A woman in the Florida USA, who had made the first dose of vaccine of Moderna against COVID-19 during her pregnancy, she gave birth to the first baby to be found with antibodies against coronavirus after maternal vaccination.
The woman, a frontline health worker, was vaccinated in January at 36 weeks' gestation and gave birth to a healthy baby girl three weeks later. US pediatricians at the University of Florida-Atlantic College of Medicine, led by Dr. Paul Gilbert, analyzed the baby's blood and found IgG antibodies. They made the pre-publication on medRxiv, according to the Guardian.
The doctors said that thanks to the antibodies «there is a chance of protection and reduction of the risk of the baby being infected with coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 after the mother's vaccination.» They stressed, however, that the issue needs further investigation to determine whether and to what extent newborns do indeed have protection against Covid-19. They said that many thousands of babies will gradually be born to mothers who have been vaccinated against coronavirus and therefore studies are needed to focus on whether they are carried antibodies from the mother to her baby.
It has been found in the past that other vaccines, such as the flu vaccine, pass antibodies from the vaccinated pregnant mother through the placenta to the foetus. Scientists are beginning to learn more about how the coronavirus vaccine affects pregnant women, and some pharmaceutical companies have already begun to include pregnant women in their vaccine studies.
