Narratives between science and politics in chloroquine activism

Abstract

The current sanitary and pandemic crisis generated a set of global tensions, schemes and conflicts in different scientific, politic-party and economic spaces. The drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine gained fame and expectations. What until then served only to treat malaria, now had a "cure possibility" for Covid-19. In this article we sought to understand the debate between science and politics that was generated through a research with chloroquine (Chlorocovid-19) and developed in Manaus, Amazonas. Through an ethnography woven with documents such as videos, notes, letters and messages broadcast on social media, we described and analyzed: (a) what we call chloroquine activity in Manaus and its offensive; (b) the consequent academic reaction to the attacks. Both poles-pro and contra-made efforts in the construction of a truth, in which science and politics cross-link.