3 babies in China may have been infected with coronavirus in the womb
Three babies in China may have contracted the new coronavirus in the womb shortly before birth, according to two new reports.
However, experts say the evidence in these cases is inconclusive and does not prove the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, can pass from mother to child during pregnancy.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/3-babies-in-china-may-have-been-infected-with-coronavirus-in-the-womb/ar-BB11LGdA
1st JAMA Article:
Possible Vertical Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 From an Infected Mother to Her Newborn
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763853
2nd JAMA Article:
Antibodies in Infants Born to Mothers With COVID-19 Pneumonia
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763854
The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
Sorry, conspiracy theorists. Study concludes COVID-19 ‘is not a laboratory construct’
An analysis of the evidence, according to the findings first published in the scientific journal Nature Medicine, shows that the novel coronavirus “is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus,” with the researchers concluding “we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.”
“There’s a lot of speculation and conspiracy theories that went to a pretty high level,” Dr. Robert Garry, a professor at the Tulane University School of Medicine and one of the authors of the study, told ABC News, “so we felt it was important to get a team together to examine evidence of this new coronavirus to determine what we could about the origin.”
Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, supported the study’s findings, writing on his blog, “This study leaves little room to refute a natural origin for COVID-19.”