{"id":104403,"date":"2020-03-28T13:42:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T20:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/shielding-the-fetus-from-the-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-03-28T13:42:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T20:42:16","slug":"shielding-the-fetus-from-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/shielding-the-fetus-from-the-coronavirus","title":{"rendered":"Shielding the Fetus From the Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/shielding-the-fetus-from-the-coronavirus2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Newborns and babies have so far seemed to be largely unaffected by the coronavirus, but three new studies suggest that the virus may reach the fetus in utero.<\/p>\n<p>Even in these studies, the newborns seemed only mildly affected, if at all \u2014 which is reassuring, experts said. And the studies are small and inconclusive on whether the virus does truly breach the placenta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t look at this and think coronaviruses must cross across the placenta,\u201d said Dr. Carolyn Coyne of the University of Pittsburgh, who studies the placenta as a barrier to viruses. She was not involved in the new work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newborns and babies have so far seemed to be largely unaffected by the coronavirus, but three new studies suggest that the virus may reach the fetus in utero. Even in these studies, the newborns seemed only mildly affected, if at all \u2014 which is reassuring, experts said. And the studies are small and inconclusive on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}