Social inequalities in the misbelief of chloroquine’s protective effect against COVID-19: results from the EPICOVID-19 study in Brazil

Bruno Pereira Nunes, Inácio Crochemore-Silva, Grégore I. Mielke, Luis Paulo Vidaletti, Marilia Arndt Mesenburg, Mariangela Freitas da Silveira, Pedro C. Hallal

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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0341666
Published: 2026-03-23
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@article{allodium:10.1371/journal.pone.0341666,
  title = {Social inequalities in the misbelief of chloroquine’s protective effect against COVID-19: results from the EPICOVID-19 study in Brazil},
  author = {Bruno Pereira Nunes and Inácio Crochemore-Silva and Grégore I. Mielke and Luis Paulo Vidaletti and Marilia Arndt Mesenburg and Mariangela Freitas da Silveira and Pedro C. Hallal},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {PLOS One},
  doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0341666},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0341666}
}

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Nunes, B. P., Crochemore-Silva, I., Mielke, G. I., Vidaletti, L. P., Mesenburg, M. A., Silveira, M. F. D., & Hallal, P. C. (2026). Social inequalities in the misbelief of chloroquine’s protective effect against COVID-19: results from the EPICOVID-19 study in Brazil. PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0341666

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