As it is known to all, the Journal of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine [Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical] is on a fast track process for manuscripts about COVID-19 and, this way, the entire process of reviewing, edition, preprint deposit and final publication will be as fast as possible. Therefore, after the peer review process and during editing, all these manuscripts will be submitted to SciELO preprints and, at the same time, they will be listed under the COVID-19 section of the SciELO blog under the Perspective tab. All this process is part of the SciELO Program and periodicals strategy within the Tropical Medicine/Infectious and Parasitic Diseases field aligned to the use of Open Science practices.

Sincerely,

Prof. Dalmo Correia Filho
Editor-in-Chief
Journal of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine.