Metabolic dysregulation in term infants from SARS-CoV-2-infected mothers

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2)is a novel beta coronavirus that causes coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19),a severe infectious respiratory disease.In January 2020,the World Health Organization(WHO)declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern,and in March 2020,it was declared a global pandemic[1].COVID-19 is the second pandemic of the twenty-first century,with over six hundred million infec-tions and,to date,over six million deaths[2].