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0400/2024 - Fiocruz in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic: experience facing scientific denialism
Fiocruz no contexto da pandemia do Covid-19: experiência frente ao negacionismo científico

Author:

• André de Souza Lemos - Lemos, A.S - <andredrelemos@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6068-8642

Co-author(s):

• Valber da Silva Frutuoso - Frutuoso, V.S - <valber.frutuoso@fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-6695-9808
• Maria Elisa Andries dos Reis - Reis, M.E.A - <elisa.andries@fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7231-6648
• Wagner Barbosa de Oliveira - Oliveira, W.B - <wagner.oliveira@fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4861-5164
• Umberto Trigueiros Lima - Lima, U.T - <umberto.trigueiros@fiocruz.br>
• João Pedro Teixeira Werneck Vianna - Vianna, J.P.T.W - <joao.vianna@fiocruz.br>


Abstract:

This article is expressed as an opinion regarding the behavior of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, in the face of the denialist position of the government of former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022). To this end, it outlines elements of the institution's trajectory, relating it to public management, demonstrating initiatives to structure public health in the face of Covid-19 and scientific denialism. In the technical field, see the in-depth research on Covid-19 and new institutional frameworks to combat pandemics using the Astrazeneca/Oxford/Fiocruz vaccine as a reference. And in the social sphere, see the participation in the public debate on vaccination and prevention mechanisms using public health integration projects in the favelas as a reference. Knowing that, in addition to these examples, there were other actions in a variety of ways involving different sectors. Thus, given this behavior of Fiocruz, it is possible to evaluate it as a determining institutional and social component in confronting the Covid-19 pandemic and scientific denialism at that tragic moment in Brazil. For this analysis, based on the sociology of knowledge, it is a behavior that generates new meanings in science, health and public management.

Keywords:

Public Management, Covid-19 Pandemic, Scientific Denialism.

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Lemos, A.S, Frutuoso, V.S, Reis, M.E.A, Oliveira, W.B, Lima, U.T, Vianna, J.P.T.W. Fiocruz in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic: experience facing scientific denialism. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2024/Dec). [Citado em 21/05/2026]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/fiocruz-in-the-context-of-the-covid19-pandemic-experience-facing-scientific-denialism/19448?id=19448



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