Mothers pass coronavirus antibodies through breast milk

A study of 84 breastfeeding women in Israel, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, showed that after receiving two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, they had “robust" amounts of antibodies in samples of their breast milk for 6 weeks post-vaccination. Researchers said four of the babies registered a fever in the first 3 weeks of the study, and all of the infants showed symptoms of upper respiratory tract infections.

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