Social inequalities in the misbelief of chloroquine’s protective effect against COVID-19: results from the EPICOVID-19 study in Brazil
Misbelief in chloroquine's protective effect against SARS-CoV-2 was high in Brazil. People with greater social vulnerability were more likely to wrongly believe that chloroquine prevented COVID-19.
Authors
- Grégore Iven Mielke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3043-2715)
- Mariângela Freitas da Silveira (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2861-7139)
- Marília Arndt Mesenburg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9598-4193)
- Luís Paulo Vidaletti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2840-6841)
- Bruno Pereira Nunes
- Pedro C. Hallal
- Inácio Crochemore-Silva
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLoS ONE
- Published
- 2026-03-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0341666
- Primary Topic
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00