COVID-19 update for June 3: Here's what you need to know
• New cases: 1,163 over seven daysHeadlines at a glance• Vaccination during pregnancy cuts infant infections,
The weekly report from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control says 44 people died during the week that ended Saturday, bringing the pandemic death toll to 3,547. Since April, B.C. has been reporting all deaths from any cause when the person died within 30 days of a positive COVID-19 test result, with the centre saying it will do retrospective evaluations to better understand “true” COVID-19 mortality.Vaccination during pregnancy cuts infant infections; vaccines only modestly reduce long COVID risk
“There could still be a protective effect from antibodies past the first four months, but there are likely individual differences,” said Dr. Ellen Oen Carlsen of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Babies get another type of antibodies from breast milk, she noted, and the findings could partly be due to antibodies acquired from breastfeeding, or because vaccinated mothers are less likely to get COVID-19 and infect their babies.
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