From the Tropics for the Tropics

NEWSLETTER - Issue 106 - May 15, 2020

Social distancing: is it time to stop?

Study projects prolonged or intermittent social distance until 2022

Alert: Brazil should be alert and monitor neuroinvasive arboviruses

Attention to neuroinvasive diseases due to arboviruses must be doubled. Dengue can compromise the nervous system by direct invasion, hypoxia, ischemia, hemorrhage and autoimmunity

Impact Factor and H Index to evaluate publications and authors

Impact Factor and H Index alone may not be sufficient to fulfill the task of evaluating journals, articles and authors

Science called into question: attacks on scientific evidence seek to destroy confidence in institutions

Science is also a victim of false information disseminated as if they were true

INTERVIEW

Researchers seek better scientific evidence to face the pandemic

Preliminary results of the first study on chloroquine against covid-19 pointed out risks to the lives of patients who received high doses of the substance



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Chief-editor:
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Assignment editors:
Guilherme Werneck
Carlos Henrique Nery Costa

Journalism:
Denise de Quadros
MTb 8458 DRT/RS

Translation:
Pedro Costa

Graphics and diagramation:
Leandro Matos