This article was translated from Portugese
Scientists from around the world are trying to develop a vaccine against the new coronavirus in a race against time. Meanwhile, a small but fervent anti-vaccine movement is mobilizing against immunization efforts. According to the most recent data from Johns Hopkins University, SARS-CoV-2 has already caused nearly 300,000 deaths in about 4.4 million confirmed cases of infection on a global scale, while the number of recoveries is around 1.6 million.
The alert was made this Wednesday by the scientific magazine "Nature" , which details some of the narratives that anti-vaccine activists propagate: they say, for example, that the vaccine will be used to implant microchips in people and circulate the false information of the death of a woman who participated in a clinical trial in the UK.