Placental Privilege: Evidence of Organ Resilience in severe COVID-19

The blood of pregnant women affected by severe COVD-19 shows profound changes in immune cells. On the contrary, their placentas are relatively protected from severe perturbations. Overall design: We compared transcriptomics of maternal blood and placenta from COVID19+ (with different severity scores) and COVID19- pregnant women. This study was supported by: . K12 HD000849 (Yalda Afshar) . The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (Yalda Afshar)