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ArticleFrontiers in public health2022

Failure to Detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the Air During Active Labor in Mothers Who Recently Tested Positive.

Corina N Schoen, Elizabeth Morgan, Heidi K Leftwich, Christine Rogers, Anand Soorneedi, Cassandra Suther, Matthew D Moore

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Corina N SchoenDivision of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate, Springfield, MA, United States.
Elizabeth MorganDivision of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate, Springfield, MA, United States.
Heidi K LeftwichDivision of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School/UMASS Memorial Health, Worcester, MA, United States.
Christine RogersDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health & Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States.
Anand SoorneediDepartment of Food Science, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States.
Cassandra SutherDepartment of Food Science, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States.
Matthew D MooreDepartment of Food Science, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States.
University of Massachusetts Amherst · USUniversity of Massachusetts Chan Medical School · USBaystate Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The risk of potential SARS-CoV-2 transmission by infected mothers during labor and delivery has not been investigated in-depth. This work collected air samples close to (respiratory droplets) and more distant from (aerosol generation) unvaccinated patients who had previously tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 during labor within 5 days of a positive test. All but one of the patients wore masks during the delivery, and delivery was carried out in either birthing or negative pressure isolation rooms. Our work failed to detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA in any air samples for all of the six patients who gave birth vaginally, despite validation of the limit of detection of the samplers. In sum, this brief report provides initial evidence that the risk of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during labor may be mitigated by the use of masks and high ventilation rates common in many modern U.S. medical facilities; however more work is needed to fully evaluate the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission during labor and maternal pushing.

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COVID-19SARS-CoV-2FemaleHumansMasksMothersPregnancyRNA, ViralRNA, ViralcoronavirusCOVIDlabor and deliverySARS-CoV-2transmissionvaginal deliveryviral transmission

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PMID35570919
PMCPMC9093214
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