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Does breastfeeding transmit coronavirus to a baby? can a mom with covid still breastfeed?

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Dr. James Ferguson answered

No data available: The specifics asked has not been studied so no information is available. The intimacy of close contact during BF would pass this or any other respiratory virus to a breastfeeding infant so the question is a bit unrealistic. Since the virus has not yet been identified in significant numbers in the US it remains more a creation of the sky is falling media that a true risk.

Answered 6/19/2020

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