Of the 33 pregnant women studied, three later had babies with confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The babies all recovered well.
The babies could have acquired the coronavirus from the birth canal or from microtears in their amniotic sacs, among other possibilities, he said.
Those papers suggested that infants born to infected mothers can have elevated antibodies for the virus detected in their own blood, although it is not clear whether the antibodies were made in response to the infection in the womb or simply made by the mother and transferred to the baby. The JAMA Pediatrics study offered encouraging news about infants' ability to recover from the coronavirus. Two of the three who were infected with it no longer tested positive by the sixth day of life, and the third, who had been born prematurely, was negative by the seventh day of life.
The other two sick babies were lethargic and had signs of pneumonia in their lungs, and one was vomiting during the weeklong course of their illness.
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