Christian Carlos. Pen sula 360 Press [P360P].
In the state of Florida, a mother, a front-line health care worker, reportedly gave birth to a girl with antibodies against COVID-19.
The mother, at 36 weeks pregnant, will have received the Moderna vaccine because she is a frontline health worker caring for COVID-19 patients.
The birth took place at the end of January; however, the specialized media MedRxiv reported the findings of the investigation only recently.
Once the mother gave birth, researchers took a blood sample from the umbilical cord immediately after it was cut; plasma was also obtained from the placenta to detect whether an antibody test resulted in any reaction to the S protein of the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the COVID-19 disease, whose origin is estimated to be in a market in the Wuhan region of China.
It is important to note that the Moderna vaccine requires two doses. The mother will have received the second dose during her postpartum period, 28 days after receiving the first dose of the vaccine to achieve her immunity.
The study urges the scientific community to conduct thorough research regarding the safety and efficacy of vaccines against the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy, since the effectiveness in newborns is unknown even when clinical studies show the presence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 to prevent the disease derived from the new coronavirus: COVID-19.
In addition to its effectiveness in newborns, researchers also demanded that research be conducted into the ideal time for a pregnant person to receive any of the available vaccines.
Details of the research can be consulted through the MedRxiv site: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.03.21250579v1