In the last years of the last century, it was customary for Brazilian doctors and scientists to refuse interviews with journalists.
Virtually all remained entrenched in their ivory towers. When the diaries published the rare interviews, some doctors were labeled by their colleagues as vain in search of non-existent merit.
They argued that the complexity of a scientific topic would give rise to the dissemination, by journalists, of incorrect knowledge — nowadays, something close to the so-called fake news.
Fortunately, these days, there is a radical change in scientists and doctors.
Every day they are on all TVs, and on the pages of newspapers and magazines in interviews with journalists, and also explaining in an accessible way to the population the proper precautions against Covid-19.
Well-articulated infectious disease specialists have gained a large audience for correct medical information, in contrast to the current dissemination of fake news and inconsistent guidelines.
Last year, 2,978 children had severe acute respiratory syndrome due to the coronavirus and 156 of them died.
This year, until Tuesday (28) 3,185 cases in children were registered, with 145 deaths.
Physician Renato Kfouri, president of the Department of Immunizations at the Brazilian Society of Pediatrics says that the vaccine for children is safe. And he adds: “Delaying the vaccination of children in the immunization program means putting these children at risk, who after a new wave can be seriously affected. It is our children’s right to be vaccinated. We have ethical, epidemiological, health and health reasons. public health to start vaccinating children as soon as possible”.
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