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Editor, Senior Moderator
Cureus
. 2021 Jan 6;13(1):e12528.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.12528.
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Positive Newborns of COVID-19 Mothers After Dyad-Care: A Case Series
Uday P Patil[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Parvathy Krishnan[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Samira Abudinen-Vasquez[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Sheela Maru[SUP] 3 4 [/SUP], Lawrence Noble[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in newborns is extremely rare, and there is a scarcity of research pertaining to epidemiology, clinical presentation, transmission, and prognosis in this population. We present five newborns who tested positive while colocating with their SARS-CoV-2 positive mothers from March 19 to May 15, 2020, at a large public hospital in Queens, New York that was severely affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. All the newborns subsequently tested negative and remained asymptomatic, including through median outpatient follow-up of three weeks.
Keywords: colocation; covid-19; dyad-care; newborns; sars-cov-2.
. 2021 Jan 6;13(1):e12528.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.12528.
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Positive Newborns of COVID-19 Mothers After Dyad-Care: A Case Series
Uday P Patil[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Parvathy Krishnan[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Samira Abudinen-Vasquez[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Sheela Maru[SUP] 3 4 [/SUP], Lawrence Noble[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 33569259
- PMCID: PMC7864286
- DOI: 10.7759/cureus.12528
Abstract
The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in newborns is extremely rare, and there is a scarcity of research pertaining to epidemiology, clinical presentation, transmission, and prognosis in this population. We present five newborns who tested positive while colocating with their SARS-CoV-2 positive mothers from March 19 to May 15, 2020, at a large public hospital in Queens, New York that was severely affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. All the newborns subsequently tested negative and remained asymptomatic, including through median outpatient follow-up of three weeks.
Keywords: colocation; covid-19; dyad-care; newborns; sars-cov-2.