{"id":8765,"date":"2020-08-06T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T18:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8765"},"modified":"2021-04-06T11:31:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T18:31:42","slug":"placental-barrier-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/06\/placental-barrier-against-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Placental Barrier against COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Komine-Aizawa et al.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">performed a narrative review\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">summariz<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">evidence from pathological examinations\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of placental tissues<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in mothers with COVID-19<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">finding that these tissues<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">are often infected with SARS-CoV-2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0although\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">fetuses are not always infected.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">They review potential\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">mechanisms for\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-Co<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">V-2 vertical transmission<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The authors conclude that although placentas are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0infection<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, they\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">may\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">partially protect fetuses.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Komine-Aizawa et al. (July 25, 2020). Placental Barrier against COVID-19. Placenta.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.placenta.2020.07.022\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.placenta.2020.07.022<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Komine-Aizawa et al.\u00a0performed a narrative review\u00a0summarizing\u00a0evidence from pathological examinations\u00a0of placental tissues\u00a0in mothers with COVID-19,\u00a0finding that these tissues\u00a0are often infected with SARS-CoV-2\u00a0although\u00a0fetuses are not always infected.\u00a0They review potential\u00a0mechanisms for\u00a0SARS-CoV-2 vertical transmission.\u00a0The authors conclude that although placentas are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2\u00a0infection, they\u00a0may\u00a0partially protect fetuses.\u00a0 Komine-Aizawa et al. (July 25, 2020). Placental Barrier against COVID-19. Placenta.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.placenta.2020.07.022\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/06\/placental-barrier-against-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-8765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8766,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765\/revisions\/8766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8765"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}