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September 3, 2024

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"Instead of crossing the placenta, this could be an ascending infection similar to STDs and other infections that transmit to babies...up to now, people just assumed that it came from exposure in-utero to the mother."- Andrea Kovacs, MD

University of Southern California Investigator Makes New Discoveries on the Transmission of COVID-19 in Pregnant Patients

More than four years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers are still shedding light on the consequences of its transmission—one focus being on its relation to pregnancy and fetal health.

 

Andrea Kovacs, M.D., a professor in Pediatrics and Pathology as well as Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Los Angeles General Medical Center and Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC), has extensive experience in clinical research on pathogenesis and transmission of diseases like human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human cytomegalovirus (CMV). However, the HIV program she began at USC was halted in 2020 when she shifted her focus to COVID-19…

 

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