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309 pandemi c 78 was produced. Workshops and trainings were held for journalists and institutional media workers, as well as meetings with an emphasis on learning communities and valuation of good practices. Many of these approaches were normative; some were pragmatic as to which sources were more appropriate or what approaches should be avoided (sensationalist or alarmist) and which should be promoted (stories of improvement and overcoming), as well as emphasizing solutions in the stories told by journalism. The fact that journalists, communicators and media workers were considered critical workers and received their first doses of vaccination early in the process in Chil e 79 and in other countries, symbolizes the relevance they have in building more and better connected discourses and communities. Both good and not so good experiences derived from the fields of communication, health and science during the pandemic should be considered to rethink the intersections of these areas in relation to other pressing scientific and technological issues, such as climate change and artificial intelligence. As discussed in climate change studies, neither scientific actors nor the evidence produced by research are the factors that drive social consensus. Meaningful changes require political actors and communication strategies, to mention just two relevant aspects, to push for substantive changes (Holmes, 2020). References Besançon, L., Peiffer-Smadja, N., Segalas, C., Jiang, H., Masuzzo, P., Smout, C., … Leyrat, C. (2021). Open science saves lives: lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic. BMC Med Res Methodol , 21 (117). https://doi.org/https :/ /doi.org/10.1186/s12874-021-01304-y. Blau, W. (2021). Lecciones de la cobertura de la pandemia para el periodismo sobre la crisis climática . Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Disponible en: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/lecciones- 78 “How journalists can help stop the spread of the coronavirus outbreak”, Eduardo Suárez, Reuters Institute, March 2020. Available at: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-journalists-can-help-stop- spread-coronavirus-outbreak (Retrieved on August 6 th , 2022). The WHO itself has generated content aimed at improving communications in the field of health, taking also into account different audiences. “WHO compilation of innovative concepts to communicate science during the Covid-19 pandemic”. Available at: https://www.who.int/teams/epi-win/scicom-compilation (Retrieved on August 6 th , 2022). “Apuntes para las coberturas sobre la pandemia Covid-19”, Defensoría del Público de Argentina, March 19 th , 2020. Available at: https://defensadelpublico.gob.ar/recomendaciones-para-la-cobertura-de-la-pandemia-covid-19/ (Retrieved on August 7 th , 2022). In the Chilean case, the National Television Council also developed recommendations for developing a more careful media coverage of the pandemic (CNTV, 2020b). 79 “The Guild of Journalists requested to the Ministry of Health Covid-19’s vaccines and PCR tests for media workers.”, January 2021. Available at: https://www.colegiodeperiodistas.cl/2021/01/colegio-de-periodistas- solicito-al.html (Retrieved on August 8 th , 2022).