Embryos Could Be Susceptible to COVID-19, Suggests Study

August 12, 2020

(Medscape) – A new study suggests that embryos of women exposed to SARS-CoV-2 virus could be susceptible to COVID-19 as early as the second week of pregnancy. The findings were published in the Royal Society’s journal Open Biology . Researchers at the University of Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology looked at the expression of key genes in the human embryo during its developmental stages.