Threats and attacks against media freedom or specifically targeting news organizations or journalists

Brazilian popular cultural phenomena such as music, arts, literature and other forms of expression

Heavy industry, consumer goods and services such as tourism

Infringement on freedom of expression and access to information, including censorship, alghorithmic shaping, blocking, etc.

Explanations for events or situations that invoke a conspiracy by sinister and powerful groups.

Corruption that is unrelated to or pre-dates the COVID-19 pandemic

Opportunistic and structural corruption that harms pandemic response

Degradation of Brazilian ecosystems and the Amazon rainforest

About elections, the voting process, polling, public consultations, referenda, etc.

Infringements on human rights: freedom of expression, movement, association

Economic transactions that occur outside of regulated markets

Trade between countries

Interactions between workers and employers

How fundamental social, economic, political and communal norms might change as a result of the pandemic

Meta-theme. How the internet, media companies, regulation, access, and consumption and participation habits/preferences affect the "infodemic".

Meta-theme. How falsehoods, bias, distortion, and lies disrupt our ability to receive accurate information about the pandemic

Where the disease originated, in what species, and whether it orginated in nature or was engineered

Actions by person or groups that target others for political reasons

Political and cultural currents that result in public health failures, such as weaponization of the pandemic for political ends, inequity in distribution COVID-19 aid, continued religious gatherings and miracle cures

Protest events and gatherings under lockdown, restrictions in civil liberties, online activities, reinventions and innovations in participation, and pandemic impacts on goals of protest movements

How public health messages are shared, translated, interpreted, and interact with political and cultural groups

Impact on national health systems, infrastructure, insurance, access, and effects on other illness treatment

Situations where race and ethnicity is a central factor

How religious beliefs are impacting the political sphere

How governments and societies ease restrictions, and related factors

Governments adopting or increasing authoritarian policies

Humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize behaviors

How events and processes (services, education, medicine, sports, arts, politics) adapt to online environments

Tensions and opportunities in international relations and diplomacy, such as conflict resolution or escalation, assistance and aid, and changes in international alliances

Reshaping of political alliances at national levels

Social and cultural practices and norms that affect the course of the pandemic, such as personal space (handshaking, kissing, queuing), visiting, family structure, holidays, community interaction, the use of public spaces

Access to treatment and resources, accelerations of socio-economic divides, migrants, refugees, homeless, and other resource-constrained and rights-constrained communities

Use of violence by military, police or state forces suspected of violating human rights

Increased use of surveillance to control disease, and corresponding decrease in privacy

Medical and research and intervention, folk remedy, miracle cure and other efforts to treat and cure COVID-19

Whether and how vaccines and testing will affect infections

Risks, and threats for vulnerable groups: pregnant women, medical staff, elderly, immuno-compromised

How the WHO responds to the pandemic, and pressure on it by governments

Women's rights and associated issues and movements, including topics such as domestic and gender-based violence, labor rights, reproductive rights, as well as pushback from men's rights groups and other forces