Estratégias discursivas de defesa da cloroquina e da hidroxicloroquina: uma etnografia de vídeos publicados no YouTube em 2020

Abstract

The present project proposes to analyze argumentative strategies in the circulation of information involving the use of chloroquine (chloroquine diphosphate) and hydroxychloroquine (hydroxychloroquine sulfate) for Covid-19 treatment on YouTube Brazil, between the months of March and July 2020, in profiles on the platform. The emerging social actors and the social political context in pandemic Brazil also guide us to construct a timeline, in a succession of recent events involving the two drugs, doctors/scientists, and the federal government. Our intent is to retrace the trajectory of the substances, the arguments used to validate the therapy for Covid-19 in detriment of non-pharmacological measures. A biographical and ethnographic perspective was built to analyze the attempts to legitimize these drugs by doctors and researchers during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as official documents from the Federal Government were consulted in order to enrich the study. Thus, we propose a reflection about the speeches given by doctors and scientists who defend the use of these two drugs, resorting to tv shows reposted in YouTube profiles and debates in lives, focusing on the ethnographic analysis of the content of the material.