LOS ANGELES - A new study shows that COVID-19 antibodies — a key element to immunity and protection from the coronavirus — can be transferred from a pregnant women to the infant during pregnancy, supporting the prospect that a mother’s antibodies could be protecting their infant and baby still in the womb from COVID-19.The cohort study, published on Jan.
29 in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), studied more than 1,400 women and their newborns in Philadelphia between April and August of 2020.RELATED: WI mom who gave birth in coma holds newborn after beating COVIDResearchers found that antibodies were transferred across the placenta in 72 of 83 pregnant women who were infected or previously infected with.