Research on COVID and breastmilk
Evidence of a significant secretory-IgA-dominant SARS-CoV-2 immune response in human milk following recovery from COVID-19
Alisa Fox1, Jessica Marino2, Fatima Amanat3, Florian Krammer3, Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook2, Susan Zolla-Pazner1, and Rebecca L. Powell1* 1Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, and 3Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; 2Department of Psychology, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, USA
Maintaining safety and service provision in human milk banking: a call to action in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(20)30134-6/fulltext
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COVID-19 – media
The coronavirus slayer! How Kerala’s rock star health minister helped save it from Covid-19
KK Shailaja has been hailed as the reason a state of 35 million people has only lost four to the virus. Here’s how the former teacher did it
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/14/the-coronavirus-slayer-how-keralas-rock-star-health-minister-helped-save-it-from-covid-19
Other research on formulas
Guidance for the Conduct and Reporting of Clinical Trials of Breast Milk Substitutes
This JAMA paper comes with supplementary data. It is the output from a global Delphi project which aims to protect breastfeeding when clinical trials of BMS are undertaken and provide criteria against which BMS trials can be judged.
A review of studies against these criteria is already ongoing by Bob Boyle’s team at Imperial.
An Australian/NZ on how people make up formula using instructions on tins https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306919220300944 It includes this graphic that is being circulated (you can download a high resolution graphic at the link above). May be useful if we get a chance to comment on new Guidance Notes relating to labelling here in the UK.
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