As a matter of fact, the Ministry of Health published the last part of the Pharmacovigilance Report on Covid-19 vaccines a few days ago, and the main side effects detected with the third dose of Pfizer and Moderna were explained. The second most common of the first and the first of the second are basically the same: pyrexia.

Pyrexia? Like what ‘pyrexia’? What is pyrexia?. That way, ‘pyrexia’ sounds serious. In fact, most of those who learn of it these days may have done so not by reading the ministry’s report, but by using all the avenues launched to describe the details and details of symptoms like this. Well, the famous “third dose of vaccine side effect” is fever. Just fire. There is nothing but fire.

So, it’s the same that affects the remaining doses and affects the vast majority of vaccines in the world in general. Fever is naturally the first visible response of the immune system, and so many vaccines that affect it cause it. Pyrexia, however we look at it, it is no longer a mystery. Yes, you may have a fever after the puncture.

Virality of coronavirus (remainder). What’s even more mysterious is that technical terms from medical jargon sometimes colonize large parts of the pandemic discussion for no apparent reason other than to be “flashy.” And I say it’s “mysterious” because he doesn’t understand the logic that virality and the tremors of social anxiety around the coronavirus impose on media coverage of the pandemic; because in these years we experienced an explosion that created very positive dynamics in scientific and health journalism.

Will we come out better (in terms of knowledge)? However, now that the pandemic is on its way to extinction as a social problem and we’re starting to see clear signs that our community behavior is returning to normal, it’s unclear what will remain of this real-time scientific information effort.

Reinvent scientific communication (after coronavirus). To be honest, I’m not very optimistic. And I’m not saying this from the kind of moral code we usually use in the journalism profession. I am not very optimistic because I suffer from media tensions like others. Media business is actually a business of interest. Over these years, scientific and health information has captured an enormous amount of this attention, but we are (slowly) on our way back to the same place we were before the pandemic.

This will force us to reinvent the way we do this type of information and assume that we can’t hold on to virality to stay at the center of the discussion after the worst of the pandemic. First of all, because as with the weather, this virality is the “bread of today” and a lack of credibility for tomorrow.

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