COVID-19’s effect on unborn children has recently been studied further. Researchers from the Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine found that the virus may cause stillbirth and asphyxiation by destroying the placenta.

Dr. David Schwartz, an Atlanta-based private perinatal pathologist, told Today that “we have never seen this degree of devastation from an infectious sickness before.” That meant the placenta couldn’t do its job. Asphyxiation was the cause of death for these fetuses and neonates… The virus is attacking and destroying the mother, not the fetus. This is the placenta,” he says.

SARS-CoV-2 placentitis is the name given to the condition that occurs over the course of two weeks. Unvaccinated mothers were responsible for the deaths of 68 infants in 12 nations, according to the study. All of their newborns perished or were stillborn within seven days after birth. Due to a buildup of the protein fibrin and a loss of cells in an area of the placenta’s protective cell layer that is inflamed by SARS-CoV-2, placenta clots form.

“No baby can survive that,” says Baylor College of Medicine’s Dr. Kjersti Aagaard, a professor of maternal-fetal medicine and a physician at Texas Children’s Hospital.

It is recommended that physicians do ultrasounds on pregnant women in the third trimester and investigate whether or not delivery is a possibility if SARS-CoV-2 placentitis is found.

“Placental insufficiency is a common problem for obstetricians. Schwartz remarked, “You can’t undo it, but you can think about delivery.” The fetus should be removed as soon as medically possible.

As far as Aagaard was concerned, vaccination is the only method to avoid contracting this disease.

By looking at these two studies in tandem, Aagaard says, “the single greatest choice any pregnant person and their family can make at this time is to obtain the COVID vaccination.” That is the finest thing they can do to increase the likelihood of a healthy delivery without complications.