Ricardo Mexia, an epidemiologist and president of the National Association of Public Health Physicians, is the guest today, on February 14, for another 6th Com Ciência, scheduled for 21 pm, at the Centro Ciência Viva de Lagos.
In the session “From the Virus to the Epidemic”, Ricardo Mexiavai will speak and explain some of the issues related to epidemics as well as the current outbreak of the coronavirus.
Ricardo Mexia will seek to clarify and inform what it is, how it is transmitted and some of the wrong information associated with the 2019-nCoV coronavirus. This doctor will also talk about what epidemiology is and what it is and how to alleviate epidemics.
“At a time of a lot of information and misinformation related to a potential threat to global public health such as the 2019-nCoV coronavirus, it seemed the right time to bring this doctor to Lagos and that the Lagos Live Science Center should play an active role with specialists in the area and hence the invitation to Dr. Ricardo Mexia, president of Doctors of Public Health”, explained Luís Azevedo Rodrigues, executive director of CCV Lagos.
“It is the mission and obligation of Centro Ciência Viva to promote credible clarification, with scientific information accessible to all”, completed Luís Azevedo Rodrigues
After the lecture given by the doctor Ricardo Mexia, the CCVL team will analyze the computer and mobile game Plague Inc, currently “Epidemiology at stake?”, evaluating what can and cannot be learned from this game, recently rediscovered due to the epidemic of coronavirus that originated in China.
From 22 pm, several computers will allow participants to play this game, being accompanied by the CCVL team.
“In addition to the session more dedicated to epidemics, the CCVL team, with highly specialized elements, also proposed to organize a session of computer games in which epidemics are the motto. For this, we will provide the public with a session of the Plague Inc game and from this session on we will evaluate the goodness or lack of rigor in scientific terms of this software which, despite having been released some time ago, has now had a "resurrection", he added. the director of the Center.
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