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Corona may be less harmful for pregnant women and children…!

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The new coronavirus has been spreading quickly across the Hubei Region in China since it first appeared late December, quickly infecting over 60,000 people across 25 countries. The coronavirus can spread readily between humans -it’s estimated each sick person spreads it to two others -early Source shows very few children have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus. There may be a chance that children have a lower risk of getting sick. Additionally, new research out of Wuhan, China, suspects that the virus was not pass from pregnant women to fetuses during pregnancy . After a newborn whose mother had COVID-19 tested positive for the infection just 36 hours after being born. “It appears that the transmission ways do not include amniotic fluid, cord blood, or breast milk, all of which may be routes for a vertical transmission”. It’s not clear how the virus affects women in the early stages of pregnancy as this study only observed at those in their third trimester. Women wh