LISBON, Portugal — Pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2 infection passed antibodies to newborns in most cases, although there were no cases of neonatal infection in a study presented here.
“However, the protection provided by these antibodies will gradually decrease over time and disappear within 100 days of birth in most cases,” Liliana Gabrielli, MD, a medical doctor affiliated with the University of Bologna in Italy, said in a press release from the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
The findings add to existing research showing that antibodies