id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-354261-gdvawnp6 Gale, Chris National active surveillance to understand and inform neonatal care in COVID-19 2020-06-14 .txt text/plain 1626 92 46 Vertical transmission of SARS-CoV-2 has yet to be definitively established; neonatal infection with the virus has been detected in the first days after birth to mothers with COVID-19 1 ; however, this could represent early horizontal transmission. For more complete case ascertainment, this BPSU surveillance will link with other related data sources, including ongoing UKOSS surveillance of COVID-19 in pregnancy for maternal cases, Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK (MBRRACE-UK), for neonatal deaths and stillbirths, and Public Health England (PHE), Health Protection Scotland, Public Health Wales and the Health and Social Care Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland. Active surveillance through established national systems such as the BPSU and UKOSS with very high population-based case ascertainment is among the simplest, quickest and most efficient way to obtain the accurate population level incidence data and to determine true infection rates, clinical characteristics and outcomes, which are needed to inform optimal perinatal and neonatal care. ./cache/cord-354261-gdvawnp6.txt ./txt/cord-354261-gdvawnp6.txt