The doctors say a front line health care worker who was 36 weeks pregnant received her first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in January.
She gave birth to a healthy baby girl three weeks later and researchers obtained a blood sample from the baby’s cord to look for antibodies to determine if they were passed from the mom to the baby, something that occurs with other vaccines given during pregnancy as well. Researches note the woman received the second dose after giving birth in accordance with the 28-day vaccination timeline.
“We report the first known case of an infant with SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies detectable in cord blood after maternal vaccination,” the researchers concluded in their report.
“This is one small case in what will be thousands and thousands of babies born to mothers who have been vaccinated [over] the next several months,” Chad Rudnick, a doctor involved in the research, told WPBF.
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