Babies born to mothers infected with COVID-19 show difficulties with motor development some weeks after birth, according to results of a preliminary study at a clinic in Spain which stand in contrast to information by Britain’s National Health Service (NHS).
Project Leader Dr. Rosa Ayesa Arriola said her team of researchers compared 21 COVID positive pregnant women and their babies with 21 healthy controls at the Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital in Santander, northern Spain.
The scientists found that newborns of women infected with COVID-19 during pregnancy seemed to exhibit differences in neurodevelopmental outcomes at six weeks.
