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Clinical and Translational Nutrition

Global and Public Health Nutrition

Session: Current Issues: COVID-19 and Infant Feeding

Panel Discussion - Current Issues: COVID-19 and Infant Feeding

Thursday, June 10, 2021

3:18 PM – 3:30 PM EDT

Chair(s)

Lars Bode, PhD

Professor & Center Director
UC San Diego
La Jolla, California, United States

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Veronique Demers-Mathieu, PhD

Senior Research Scientist
Medolac Laboratories, A Public Benefit Corporation
Boulder City, Nevada, United States

Disclosure: Medolac Laboratories A Public Benefit Corporation: Employee, Other Financial or Material Support

Speaker(s)

DS

Diane L. Spatz, PhD

University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)

Disclosure: Medela: Speaker's Bureau
Johannes B. (Hans) van Goudoever, MD, PhD

Director
Emma Children's Hospital, Amsterdam University Medical Centers (Amsterdam UMC)
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Learning Objectives:

Understand the importance of promoting human milk and breastfeeding during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide passive immunity to infants against SARS-CoV-2
Describe the absence of infective SARS-CoV-2 RNA transmission through human milk and the safety of breastfeeding for mothers with COVID-19 infection
Describe the protective effect of human milk antibodies from mothers with previous COVID-19 infection and the factors that influence their neutralizing capacities (maternal characteristics, time of infection, and heat-treatment)

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