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Volume 115, Nº 2, August 2020

   

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36660/abc.20200449

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

The Other Side of the Coin: Risks of Media Discussions of Scientific Medical Data During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Caio Julio Fernandes

Fernando Ganem

Fabio Gravina Olivieri

Marcelo Fadul Vilibor

Alfredo Salim Helito



Figure 1 – Spontaneous hematomas in a 62-year-old patient who used acetylsalicylic acid, rivaroxaban and warfarin to protect herself from COVID-19 (however, her PCR and serology tests were both negative). At the Emergence Room, her INR was 26 and the activated partial thromboplastin time ratio was 2. With the reversal of anticoagulation and clinical observation, the patient had no other bleeding complications.





Keywords: Coronavirus; COVID-19; Pandemics; Quarantine; Social Isolation; Respiratory Diseases; Communicable Diseases; Diagnostic, Differencial; Information Technology/trends; Social Media.