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Newborn baby tests positive for coronavirus in London
Childs mother, who was taken to hospital days before birth with suspected pneumonia, also has virus
Simon Murphy
@murphy_simon
Sat 14 Mar 2020 05.18 EDT
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 childs 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. The baby was tested for Covid-19 minutes after being born.
The NHS trust confirmed that two patients tested positive for coronavirus, with staff in close contact with them during treatment now being advised to self-isolate.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/14/newborn-baby-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-in-london
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Newborn baby tests positive for coronavirus in London (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Mar 2020
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Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)1. Wow. Interesting.
I wonder if the baby will show symptoms? Poor mother having to worry about all this right after giving birth.
napi21
(45,806 posts)2. Pray that that baby's immune system is able to fight off this virus. n/t
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)3. During the Spanish Flu pregnant women were the first hard hit.
Then those in their late 20s and early 30s were dropping like flies but not the older people. That is why there were so many orphaned children.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)4. My DIL is due next month, I watch each of these stories
very closely. I so far haven't seen any with bad outcomes
Karadeniz
(22,572 posts)5. Is this a new case or a reiteration of a case previously posted? If you're pregnant, lock yourself
In the bathroom!