A baby born in a Paris hospital to a mother with Covid-19 tested positive for the virus and developed symptoms of inflammation in his brain, said Dr. Daniele De Luca, who led the research team. The baby recovered without treatment and is “very much improved, almost clinically normal,” said the doctor, adding that the mother, who needed oxygen during the delivery, is healthy.
Since the pandemic began, there have been isolated cases of newborns who have tested positive for the coronavirus, but there has not been enough evidence to rule out the possibility that the infants became infected by the mother after they were born, experts said. In the Paris case, Dr. De Luca said, the team was able to test the placenta, amniotic fluid, cord blood, and the mother’s and baby’s blood.
The testing indicated that “the virus reaches the placenta and replicates there,” Dr. De Luca said. It can then be transmitted to a fetus, which “can get infected and have symptoms similar to adult Covid-19 patients.”
Disponível em: https://www.nytimes.com/ . (adapted) Acesso em: 20 jul 2020
A report about the case of a baby born in Paris who tested positive for Covid-19 was published in the journal Nature Communications.
According to the article, what evidence has the Paris case shown?
