Reacción a "Reaction to study looking at neurodevelopment of children born in first year of pandemic"

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses produce high quality scientific evidence and, in this case, this study confirms the low impact of maternal SARS-CoV-2 infections on neonatal health and subsequent neurocognitive development of infants born to mothers exposed or infected by this virus.  

The only notable difference found is in speech development during the first year of life, attributable more to the indirect consequences of the pandemic - isolation, parental stress, etc. - than to the direct effect of the virus.