Some of the pandemic’s greatest threats to infants’ health may not be apparent for years or even decades. Published in partnership with KHNews
, said Dr. Frederick Kaskel, director of pediatric nephrology at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore.
People whose mothers were pregnant during surges in the 1918 influenza pandemic, for example, had poorer health throughout their lives, compared with Americans born at other times, said John McCarthy, who is a medical student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and co-wrote a recentResearchers don’t know exactly which moms were infected with pandemic flu, McCarthy said.
; that may reflect an exposure to the pandemic in the third trimester, while the kidneys were still developing.publish preliminary observationsAlthough Anagnostou noted that it’s too early to reach definitive conclusions, “there is evidence that babies born to moms with severe Covid infections have changes to their immune system,” she said. “It’s enough to make us worry a little bit.”
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