Implications of fake news on vaccination against COVID-19: a deconstruction of science

Alessandro Rodrigo Zanato, José Daniel Linares Pastore, Terezinha Aparecida Campos, Luana Patricia Weizemann, Maycon Hoffmann Cheffer

Abstract

The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has been the scene of numerous fake news related to vaccination against the disease. In this sense, the general objective was to identify the main fake news that can influence the vaccination of people and in the field of medicine. For this, we propose to carry out an integrative review of publications in virtual scientific journals, newspapers and scientific articles in the following databases: PudMed, Scielo and Redalyc in the period from 2020 to 2022. Among the most common fake news we can mention "The vaccine against COVID-19 will modify the DNA of human beings”, “Vaccines against COVID-19 create a magnetic field in the body of those immunized”, “Consuming alcohol in high concentrations can disinfect the body and kill the virus”, “WHO estimates that vaccines will reduce the world's population by 15%."From all this, it can be inferred that, to combat the fake news disseminated by social networks linked to the COVID-19 pandemic and anti-vaccination, it is increasingly it is important to analyze sources and messages before sharing them, as this can have disastrous repercussions for people's health.

Author Biographies

Alessandro Rodrigo Zanato, Universidad Politécnica y Artística del Paraguay Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud/PY

Acadêmico de Medicina pela Universidad Politécnica y Artística del Paraguay Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud/PY

José Daniel Linares Pastore, Universidade Politécnica y Artística del Paraguay Faculad de Ciencias de la Salud

Docente o curso de Medicina da Universidade Politécnica y Artística del Paraguay Faculad de Ciencias de la Salud. Ciudad del Este – Paraguay.

Terezinha Aparecida Campos, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná – Unioeste

Enfermeira. Mestre em Ensino nas Ciências da Saúde pela Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná. Docente Adjunta do Centro Universitário Assis Gurgacz, Cascavel, Paraná, Brasil

Luana Patricia Weizemann, Centro Universitário Assis Gurgacz - FAG

Discente de Enfermagem no Centro Universitário Assis Gurgacz, Cascavel, Paraná, Brasil

Maycon Hoffmann Cheffer, Centro Universitário Assis Gurgacz - FAG

Enfermeiro. Doutor em Enfermagem pela Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM), Maringá, Paraná, Brasil. Mestre em Biociências e Saúde pela Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (Unioeste), Cascavel, Paraná, Brasil. Bacharel e licenciatura em enfermagem pela Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (Unioeste). Docente Adjunto no Centro Universitário Assis Gurgacz (FAG), Cascavel, Paraná, Brasil.

Published
2023-09-14