Breast milk does not pass on COVID-19 to babies: Study

Published January 19, 2022 6:42pm ET



Breast milk does not appear to pass a COVID-19 infection from a mother to a baby, a study found.

In a University of California, San Diego, study of breast milk samples from 110 women who either tested positive or had coronavirus symptoms, only seven contained COVID-19 DNA. These DNA strains did not contain any sgRNA, which allows the virus to replicate, indicating that the COVID-19 DNA in these few samples was not infectious.

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