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.