COVID-19: Vertical Transmission in Pregnancy and HFNC Update

28 Mar 2020

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We are going to try to bring you near-daily updates on COVID-19. There is a firehose of information and most of us are too busy to read and digest it all. Note: If you are listening to these more than a few days in the future, please beware that information may have changed and check subsequent episodes.

Also, please check out Brief19.com for the latest research and policy updates regarding COVID-19

Zeng H, Xu C, Fan J, et al. Antibodies in Infants Born to Mothers With COVID-19 Pneumonia. JAMA. 2020;
Dong L, Tian J, He S, et al. Possible Vertical Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 From an Infected Mother to Her Newborn. JAMA. 2020;

https://content.vapotherm.com/hubfs/COVID-19%20Transmission%20Assessment%20Report.pdf

One thought on “COVID-19: Vertical Transmission in Pregnancy and HFNC Update”

- March 28, 2020 at 8:31 pm Dave

While graduating medical students early due to a Pandemic is new, there is support for a historical model. During WW II medical school was 3 years.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6211283/

This is also the model that was used by Dr. Eugene Stead when he develop the initial Physician Assistant program at Duke U in the 1960s

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