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A study led by the brilliant @ShelFarFar shows that viral transmission to placenta occurred in a woman at 22 wks of pregnancy. Heroic efforts by our @YaleMSTP student Alice Lu found the major target of #SARSCoV2 to be the #syncytiotrophoblasts 👇🏽 (1/n)
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An accompanying #ElectronMicroscopy analysis by Yuki Yasumoto & Tamas Horvath shows beautiful images of the #SARSCoV2 in the syncytiotrophoblasts. (2/n)
Shown by @VogelsChantal & @NathanGrubaugh, the mother had detectable levels of #SARSCoV2 in her saliva and urine, but not in her blood. However, the level of virus in the placenta was sky high. How did the virus get to the placenta? (3/n)
