SARS-CoV-2 can ‘destroy’ placenta: study

Lead researcher says he has never seen placentas so damaged by an infectious illness before COVID-19

SARS-CoV-2 can “destroy” the placenta in unvaccinated pregnant women and cause fetal hypoxaemia, warn US researchers. 

Their study of almost 70 placentas shows the cause of death in coronavirus-related stillbirths is more likely to be placental insufficiency rather than infection of the fetus.