Facing the Pandemic in Brazil
Controversies Surrounding "Early Treatment" and Vaccination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2489305 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gabriela Blanco (0000-0002-2815-1228, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, corresponding author), Eleandra Raquel Da Silva Koch (0000-0002-6882-5987, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Camila Dellagnese Prates (0000-0003-0317-7074, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1809-4341 • E-ISSN: 1809-4341 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/1809-43412022v19e903 |
| OpenAlex | W4285248616 |
| SCIELO_PID | S1809-43412022000100903 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
The article investigates the controversies that emerge with the production of the CoronaVac vaccine, the first Covid-19 vaccine available in Brazil, on June 11th, 2020. Based on Actor-Network Theory, this study is inspired by virtual ethnography. We thus privilege digital documents from government agencies and medical entities, specialized publications, publications in Facebook groups, and the writing of a virtual field diary. Our investigation ends with the approval of the CoronaVac and Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines by the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa). We identify the construction of factoids by groups that were critical of social distancing measures, basing themselves on the use of purportedly scientific arguments. The alliances established between doctors and the federal government through the Ministry of Health challenged the vaccine as a technoscientific artifact, and advocated for drugs that were part of the so-called "early treatment" as the "cure" for the pandemic in Brazil
Agency (philosophy · Artifact (error · Christian ministry · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Government (linguistics · Pandemic · Political science · Privilege (computing · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Medicine · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |