Newborn baby tests positive for coronavirus in London

[brooklynite]

Source: The Guardian

A newborn baby has tested positive for coronavirus in what is thought to be the youngest case of the disease in the UK, it has emerged.

The child’s mother, who was taken to a north London hospital days before the birth with suspected pneumonia, has also caught the virus.

The mother tested positive at North Middlesex hospital, in Enfield, with results coming through after the birth. Minutes after the birth the baby was tested for Covid-19.

The NHS trust has confirmed that two patients tested positive for coronavirus, with staff in close contact with them during treatment now being advised to self-isolate.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/14/newborn-baby-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-in-london

[Chemisse]

1. Babies have such naive immune systems.

It will be interesting to see how this poor infant fares. The family must be terrified.

[Grasswire2]

2. Baby coming in just a few weeks in my family.

The mom owns and runs four local dance studios that will have to go dark.

Very frightening.

[duforsure]

3. I have been wondering about that too,

And if our blood supply is being tested and protected before it's given to people. Could our blood be removed, disinfected with ozone , then returned, and could that help? Ozone in oil does treat MRSA, and being used for a blood treatment by a John Hopkins doctor.

[Karadeniz]

4. So baby caught it in itero. This is going to be a tough case.