Scientific journals play a key role in the strategies and actions to control the COVID-19 pandemic.The journals allow disseminating developments on a broad range of science issues.Given the current situation's gravity, even paid journals are allowing free access to their articles.The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) has created a thematic platform to support research and measures related to the new coronavirus 1 .Organized with an openaccess reference management software -Zotero -, as of March 22 the database contained some 1,600 papers, demonstrating the huge effort by the global scientific community.All our editorial and publishing activities at CSP are being conducted remotely, and we intend to apply fast-track procedures to the review and publication of articles on COVID-19.But why maintain routine publication of other topics, apparently not as relevant at this stage of the crisis?We are aware that although scientific studies are essential to back immediate decisions, Science has a significant impact on the future of societies, and that the production of scientific knowledge requires medium-and long-term investment by government and society.It is useless to demand urgency in vaccine development 2 if the conditions for such development have not been created in timely fashion.Besides, distrust towards vaccines' safety 3 , fueled by some government officials 4,5 , creates constraints that have to be dealt with in controlling and mitigating the epidemic's harms.We are currently facing a long list of problems.The hope for diminishing the epidemic's impact on Brazil is based on accumulated knowledge.Various scientific journals in Brazil have published studies on the impact of primary healthcare (PHC) on the population's health 6 , including scientists' inherent role of identifying the limits and conditions for improvement in the current context 7 .However, rather than improving the PHC proposal, there have been mass layoffs 8 .Scientists have also decried the underfinancing of all dimensions of the Brazilian Unified National Health System (SUS), including the impacts of a fiscal austerity policy that has cut essential budget funding from the social and health areas 9 .The capacity of countries to respond depends on how their health systems are organized.Even in Italy, with a universal healthcare system (considered one of the best in Europe), hospitals have already reached the limit of their capacity to treat patients that require hospitalization and intensive care 10 .While Spain has adopted mechanisms to nationalize Science during the pandemic
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