A new study, which raised concerns that COVID during pregnancy might significantly increase the risk of developmental delays in a child's first year of life, is receiving both praise and criticism.
“The [COVID] vaccines are very efficacious, very safe,” said Andrea Edlow, an obstetrician at Massachusetts General Hospital.
The researchers cautioned that delays identified at such an early age can resolve as a child matures, or may be addressed with early interventions. Still, they said, the higher rate in the COVID group concerned them.and director of the Center for Quantitative Health at MGH.. It has been shown to increase the chances of severe illness and the likelihood of preterm birth. However, any link between COVID during pregnancy and the health of the fetus is unknown — and much debated.
“My thought was, we need to really work hard to see if there's a way we can make it go away," Perlis said."Slicing and dicing the data, going through our code, making sure there's not some reason we would have a false positive effect.” Many of the delays that were seen in the study were nonspecific, as is common at such a young age. For example, Perlis said, a pediatrician might notice a kid is"not reaching at the age we would expect them to reach, or not babbling at the age where we would expect them to babble.""In many cases, these are diagnoses that resolve with age. So it may well be that, when we go back and look at these children after 18 months or two years, they've caught up," he said.
“I'm very worried about having a paper like this unnecessarily stressing out moms,” Dumitriu said of the new research from the MGH team. “Then that will increase adverse neurodevelopmental risk because now they're worried.” He said his team plans to expand the study and follow these children on a long-term basis. He hopes to have more answers about the impact of vaccination status and severity of illness in the next six months.“It’s a really well-done study,” said Benjamin al-Haddad, a neonatology fellow at the University of Washington, who did not work on the study.
Österreich Neuesten Nachrichten, Österreich Schlagzeilen
Similar News:Sie können auch ähnliche Nachrichten wie diese lesen, die wir aus anderen Nachrichtenquellen gesammelt haben.
'Long Covid' risk lower with Omicron, study findsLast winter's Omicron variant was less likely to cause lingering symptoms, researchers say.
Weiterlesen »
Study: NJ’s early prison releases to ease crowding during COVID didn’t raise public safety risksA quarter of the more than 2,000 people who were released early from New Jersey’s prisons on the first day of a pandemic-era law enacted to ease crowding were rearrested within a year, a rate on par with incarcerated people released prior to the pandemic.
Weiterlesen »
Study Finds U.S. Could Have Saved 338,000 Lives From Covid With Universal HealthcareAccording to a new study, the U.S. could have saved more than 338,000 lives and more than $105 billion in healthcare costs in the Covid-19 pandemic with a universal healthcare system, citing delayed diagnosis and exacerbated transmission for the uninsured or underinsured in the current system. What do you think?
Weiterlesen »
Omicron less likely to cause long COVID, study findsThe omicron COVID-19 variant that swept the world in late 2021 and early 2022 is not as likely to cause long COVID in those who get infected, a study released Thursday determined.
Weiterlesen »
How months-long COVID infections could seed dangerous new variantsTracking SARS-CoV-2 evolution during persistent cases provides insight into the origins of Omicron and other global variants. What can scientists do with this knowledge?
Weiterlesen »