Session 2: Considerations during Pregnancy, the Newborn Period and Childhood

Chair: Richard Polin, USA; Columbia University Medical Center; NYC and Ola D Saugstad, Norway (TBC); Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo

 

1. Transmission of disease to the mother and foetus – Manuel Sanchez Luna, Spain; Neonatology Division and NICU at Hospital General Universitario “Gregorio Marañon” Madrid. Marian Knight, United Kingdom; National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford
2. Infection Prevention and Control Challenges for Obstetrics and Neonates: Lesson learned from Interdisciplinary Teams of Obstetrics and Pediatrics – Lisa Saiman, USA;
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York-Presbyterian
3. Transmission from mother to the newborn after birth - does there need to be sepa-ration? – Riccardo Davanzo, Italy; Maternal and Child Health Institute, IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste
4. Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome related to COVID-19 in children and adolescents – Steven G. Kernie, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York

Panel discussion:

Short communications from Norway, USA and Brazil

Why COVID-19 is less severe among children?
Claus Klingenberg

Division of Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital of North Norway and Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Science, University of Tromsø – Norway’s Arctic University

Preliminary Data from the Perinatal COVID-19 National Registry on In-Hospital Infection
Mark Hudak
Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida-Jacksonville, USA

The Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil: viewpoint of the obstetrician
Eduardo Sergio Valerio Borges da Fonseca
Dpt of Obst & Gynecology, Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil

Richard Polin
Manuel Sanchez Luna
Marian Knight
Lisa Sailam
Riccardo Davanzo
Steven Kernie