Preliminary studies in Israel have shown that the Pfizer & BioNTech Wuhan pneumonia vaccine provides fetal protection for pregnant women, and in fact the first “vaccinated baby” born with antibodies to the virus has been born in the United States!
According to FOX Channel 35 (FOX35), a female health care worker in Florida received the Moderna vaccine at 36 weeks of pregnancy and three weeks later gave birth to a healthy baby girl who also had antibodies to the virus, making her the first baby in the world to be born with antibodies to the virus after her mother received the vaccine.
Frontline health care workers were among the first in the United States to receive the vaccine. The report, written by Florida Atlantic University obstetricians and gynecologists Paul Gilbert and Chad Rudnick, noted that the pregnant woman was tested after the first dose of the vaccine and that antibodies appeared in her body, suggesting that the antibodies may have crossed the placenta and given the fetus resistance to martial lung.
The results of the study were published in MedRxiv, a preprint site for medical papers, and will be published in other official journals; the paper noted that the newborn was fully pregnant, healthy and vigorous.
Dr. Gilbert noted that, to their knowledge, this is the first case in the world in which a pregnant woman who received the vaccine has given birth to a baby who also has antibodies; however, it is unclear how strong the antibodies are and how long they will be effective.
The two physicians stressed that tens of thousands of mothers will receive the vaccine in the coming months and that more research is needed to determine how long the antibodies last in the baby’s body and how many antibodies are needed to provide protection.
In fact, a study in Singapore last year showed that five babies born to pregnant women infected with the martial lung virus had antibodies to the virus that were suspected of being transferred from the mother.
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