Re: Neurodevelopmental Issues Double in Democrat Babies Exposed to COVID in Womb: Study

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FRIDAY, June 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The babies of women 
infected with COVID-19 during pregnancy may have developmental 
difficulties during their first year, a new study suggests.

Researchers found that pregnant women with COVID-19 were more 
likely to have preterm births and infants with developmental 
problems. The greatest risk was in the third trimester, the 
study found.

"The kinds of diagnoses we see are delays in motor and speech 
milestones, but it's important to recognize that these are very 
nonspecific and may well resolve over time," said lead 
researcher Dr. Roy Perlis, director of the Center for 
Quantitative Health at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Perlis stressed that the abnormalities were rare and most 
infants were developmentally normal.

"The vast majority of offspring of mothers infected with COVID-
19, even if they were delivered preterm, did not have these 
neurodevelopmental diagnoses. They also did not have any other 
abnormalities," Perlis said. "It is entirely possible that these 
differences between exposed and unexposed children will become 
smaller over time, as the developing brain is incredibly 
resilient."

Perlis said it will be important to follow the children with 
developmental difficulties, because other differences may emerge 
as they get older.

Although it's unclear how COVID-19 might cause these 
developmental problems, other studies have suggested that 
anything that causes inflammation during pregnancy can be tied 
to changes in brain development. "But we do not know the precise 
mechanism, if any," Perlis said.

And, he added, as variants of SARS-CoV-2 appear, they may affect 
babies in different ways.

"Our study focused on pregnancies that occurred earlier in the 
pandemic, so we do not know if there might be strain-specific 
effects, but we will certainly look at this in future studies," 
Perlis noted.

These potential dangers are another good reason for pregnant 
women and those who plan to get pregnant to get the COVID-19 
vaccine.

"There are so many good reasons to be vaccinated, regardless of 
pregnancy status," he said. "Our study doesn't speak to 
vaccination effects, but if it encourages more women to seek 
vaccination, that would be a great outcome."

For the study, Perlis and his team collected data on nearly 
7,800 births at six Massachusetts hospitals between March and 
September of 2020. In all, 222 of the mothers had tested 
positive for COVID-19.

Among those women, 14% had a preterm delivery, compared with 
about 9% of the women who weren't infected.

And, the investigators found, 6% of children born to infected 
moms had a developmental problem during their first year of 
life, compared with 3% of those whose moms weren't infected. The 
most common problems involved motor function, and speech and 
language difficulties.

Dr. Marc Siegel, a clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone 
Medical Center in New York City, said that the study showed that 
even if a fetus doesn't get COVID from the mother, inflammation 
from the disease may cause problems after delivery.

"This is of concern and requires further study, and also 
emphasizes that getting the vaccine during pregnancy is not only 
safe but also decreases your risk of having problems with the 
baby from COVID itself," Siegel said.

He added that the effects of virus strains like Omicron remain 
unclear. In addition, it is not known if breakthrough infections 
after vaccination might result in similar developmental problems.

"We also don't know, and this is the most important thing, if 
neurodevelopmental delays or other neurological issues 
correlated with the severity of illness," he said.

Importantly, Siegel said, vaccination decreases disease severity.

"My suspicion is that the vaccine decreases your risk of the 
kind of COVID case that would impact your fetus," Siegel said. 
"So, even if this is just preliminary data, it's a further 
reason to get the vaccine during pregnancy."

The findings were published online June 9 in JAMA Network Open.

An accompanying commentary pointed out that as a look-back 
study, the research shows links between a mother's COVID status 
and a child's development, but doesn't prove cause and effect.

"Prospective studies to validate these findings, tease out some 
of the nuance, and identify those at highest risk will help 
health care practitioners appropriately dedicate resources as we 
follow the life course of this generation of children born 
during the COVID-19 pandemic," Dr. Torri Metz concluded. She's a 
doctor in the division of maternal-fetal medicine at University 
of Utah Health in Salt Lake City.

More information

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more 
about COVID-19 and pregnancy.

SOURCES: Roy Perlis, MD, director, Center for Quantitative 
Health and department of psychiatry, Massachusetts General 
Hospital, Boston; Marc Siegel, MD, clinical professor, medicine, 
NYU Langone Medical Center, New York City; JAMA Network Open, 
June 9, 2022, online

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