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The COVID ‐19 liquid gold rush: Critical perspectives of human milk and SARS‐CoV ‐2 infection

Year: 2020

Type: review

Abstract: Breastfeeding and the provision of human milk are associated with positive maternal and infant health outcomes immediately postpartum, across the life course, and across generations (AAP, 2012; Victora et al., 2016). Over the last two decades, there have been groundbreaking advances in the areas of human milk science and infectious diseases (Colt et al., 2017; Foeller et al., 2020; WHO, 2016). In the wake of COVID-19, clinical case reports, retrospective and prospective studies, and systematic reviews related to perinatal maternal and child transmission of SARS-CoV-2 have been generated at an astonishing rate (Center for Humanitarian Health, 2020). Scientists around the world have united in a liquid gold rush to study human milk and COVID-19. But, to what end?

Source: American Journal of Human Biology

DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.23481

Authors: Aunchalee E. L. Palmquist, Ifeyinwa V. Asiodu, Elizabeth A. Quinn

Institutions: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of California, San Francisco, Washington University in St. Louis

Language: English

Topic: SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

Subfield: Infectious Diseases

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W3047496009

FWCI: 0.095

Cites: 65

Cited by: 11

Related to: 10