Erm. Even worse. This description of a single case is a known complication in an unborn. But…
…it is not the article referred to above, which should be by another team from Italy, as far as I can see.
Just pulled this from the web:
Claudio Fenizia, an immunology specialist at the University of Milan.
The piece you posted is from a team in France.
Well, hell, that’s even scarier then. The scan suggesting (one case, remember) that this thing may cause PVL is hella scary. Melting baby brains in utero should grab a bit of attention, even from the “only unborn life matters” crowd.
They’ll find a way to dismiss it, like they dismiss the life of the mother… 
You’ll say “melting brains”, but all they’ll hear is “future Republican voter”.
Wicked burn; pun intended.
This seems to be a story that’s getting spread a lot without effort being made to actually source the original claims. Even the video being cited is already second-hand information.
I should have checked it closer. That the patient’s name wasn’t disclosed made my eyebrow twitch, but I didn’t stop to think about that more.
eta: As tempted as I am by anything to scare people into acting responsibly, a moral panic with unverifiable data isn’t the way.
Had the Wired article about it not crossed my feed this morning, I probably wouldn’t have thought twice about it either. It’s really hard to stay vigilant when there’s just so many stupid things actually happening literally all the time.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Texas drop for the first time in two weeks. It’s some saddening news that’s still good, I guess:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Texas-COVID-19-hospitalizations-drop-first-time-15405482.php
Potential school reopenings might end up getting held up by child abuse
My thoughts exactly, but I could not find that study from Felizia and colleagues. [Edit: spelling!]
Ceterum censeo, WDKS. This might turn out to be an absolutely freak accident case. Even if more cases would turn up, it would not mean much. We have millions of cases worldwide, and individual human genetics as well as immunology are massively important, among other factors.
I, for one, am not scared. I am cautious. And I urge others, here as offline, to be cautious, too.
Sadly, even person really closest to me already called me “Corona Nazi” because of that. Others will follow.
Remember that piece in March? Thomas Pueyo? He wrote something in the line of ‘people will look at you like you’ve gone mad, but they will thank you for your actions later’. I’m to lazy / worn out to look up the actual quote.
Anyway. Not happened, yet. Doubt it will.
Stay safe, everyone. We truly do not understand that virus and the conditions it causes. Please, try to stay safe. If not for your sake, than for the sake of vulnerable people. Like my niece (transplanted). Like my aunt (cancer patient). Parents. Grandparents.
Play safe. Stay safe. We don’t know shit.
There’s a huge debate on the various neighborhood forums here on the south side of Chicago about just that: the concern that actively searching for adequate representation among African Americans in the current medical trials is triggering fear due to the horrible history of such things in the past.
I don’t consider this a quality information source in the least, and yet here I am posting this link.
All you need to know is that one mother is from Clovis, CA, and the other is from OC. 
I like how the OC mom thinks that hugs in kindergarten in a public school is routine. Uh, no. Public school teachers discourage any touching in case it may be misinterpreted. Especially with the wee ones.
It seems like journalists just treat anything in the Nexis database as a “fact”
Slaughter is the best medicine?
It IS Bastille Day…
I’m sure there’s no sinister ulterior motive to this whatsoever…
