Some newborns may arrive in the world already protected from the deadly virus that caused the pandemic.

Babies may not yet be eligible for the COVID vaccine, but if their mother gets vaccinated, they can glean immunity either in the womb or through breastmilk, recent studies suggest.

“We now have evidence that antibodies created by the vaccine can travel through the placenta to the baby before birth and also during lactation,” said Cosmas Van De Ven, M.D., a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at University of Michigan Health Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital.

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