The virus (Sars-CoV-2) causes the most recent disease characterized as a threat to global health
and mainly has a course of respiratory disease. The main symptoms can be fever, cough and
dyspnoea and the risk may increase with age and the presence of other associated diseases in
the patient. Currently, treatment is supportive and vaccination is the most effective method of
combating the virus, but, given the still limited number of vaccines in the world, it is still
necessary to continue preventive measures, preventing the virus from spreading, thus protecting
way, yourself and others. Most global strategies for responding to the fight against this disease
include various levels of contact screening and self-isolation or quarantine, which are the best
forms of prevention and also the way to prevent further spread of the virus. Due to social
isolation for disease prevention, one of the alternatives that can be used to provide information
based on health education to the general population is through the mass media. Thus, the
objective of this work was to use social networks as a tool to raise public awareness in relation
to the prevention of COVID-19, in order to offer and facilitate access to educational
information. The disclosure of the information occurred through daily posts through the
@educacaoesaude_medvet profile of the social network Instagram®, which contributed to the
presentation of satisfactory results related to the online questionnaire prepared in Google
Forms, with questions on the following points: new coronavirus (SarsCoV-2) and disease
(COVID-19) and the role of communication channels in the dissemination of true and false
information. Which resulted in a total of 278 responses reaching an audience from all Brazilian
states, with 80% of the participants residing in Manaus-AM. The filling was anonymous and
voluntary, qualitative and quantitative in terms of the content and information conveyed
inherent to the disease. This work resulted in the publication of a scientific article for the
academic community, in the journal Archives of Veterinary Sciences and Zoology of University
Paranaense-UNIPAR. Given the importance of the theme, it is necessary to continue this project
through health education actions with the dissemination of health information, sources with true
information, booklets and daily publications to reach a greater number of individuals and thus
contribute to the formation of critical awareness. about the disease and maintaining its
prevention.
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