COVID-19 vaccines are now approved for children aged from six months up to five years and are already being rolled out to about 70,000 at-risk youngsters.
— and funded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — looked at 537 cases among babies under six months who had been admitted to hospital with COVID-19, and found more than 20 per cent had been placed in intensive care, with 12 per cent needing mechanical ventilation.
The benefits of maternal vaccination to the infant they are carrying have been known for a long time. "And these antibodies are able to cross the placenta so that the baby has them in its system when its born, so it can be protected straightaway if it gets exposed to that virus."It's typically a two-for-one deal, with vaccines benefiting both the pregnant person and their unborn baby.
"It is promising that it might afford some protection to young infants that can't yet be vaccinated," Professor Giles said.
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