Atila, The Alert Launcher: Constitution Of Covid-19 As A Public Problem In Brazil

The objective of the research was to describe how an alert about the seriousness of COVID-19 had resonance, performing controversies in Brazil. We elected the alert of a specialist, the researcher Atila Iamarino. Data collection was carried out by means of documentary research, based on data made available on the internet, on YouTube videos, reports and texts in magazines, as indicated by Venturini (2012), for cartography with digital data. We show how Atila Iamarino's public alert acquired resonance, based on her argument that COVID-19 was a risk, requiring a measure of social isolation. This allowed the alert to be understood and taken seriously, when its arguments generally rose.