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Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science 2020 (9): 1 
ISSN 2526-2270  
Belo Horizonte – MG / Brazil 
© The Author 2020 – This is an open-access journal 
 
From the Editor 
Pandemic: Science as a Light at the End of the Tunnel 
 
Mauro L. Condé1 
 

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License 
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We have reached the ninth issue of Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography 
of Science, and the world is still in the midst of the pandemic. Fortunately, there is light at the 
end of the tunnel. Different vaccines have been approved, and it was announced, starting 
today, as of December 14, 2020, the biggest mass vaccination campaign in the history of the 
United States of America. We hope that the rest of the world will be as lucky and get 
immunization as soon as possible, even though we know that the future comes unequally 
distributed at different times and in different places. And, if in some places the future never 
arrives, then it seems as though this cannot be the case, especially if one thinks that herd 
immunization is necessary for the whole world today, which has become completely 
interconnected. May we all have the same luck and be able to arrive quickly at a post-
pandemic future. 

Of course, we have not yet evaluated in depth the negative and, ironically, positive 
aspects brought by the pandemic. Slowly, one starts to understand what the new world or 
the “new normality” is. It is a fact, in different places of the world – although in an online way 
–, there has never been so much talk about science. Not only about epidemiology, virology, 
medicines, vaccines, etc., but about science itself in general. With the countless academic 
lives, perhaps scientists and researchers from universities and different research institutions 
have never before been so connected and in interaction with each other. There were not only 
countless topics to cover related to science and the pandemic, but also to the very condition 
of science in the contemporary world, especially in the face of this wave of scientific 
denialism that we have encountered in recent years. I believe that amid so many terrible 
things, this scientific connection was a positive point that should remain. 

We have all been affected in different ways by the pandemic and the difficulties of 
scientific production have not been immune to this process. In this issue of Transversal: 
International Journal for the Historiography of Science, in particular, not all of the articles 
initially approved and forwarded to the editorial process could be published, since, in the 
context of the pandemic, their authors faced problems that prevented them from delivering 
the final version. We hope to publish these other articles in the upcoming issues. However, 
out of respect to the other authors and readers, we will go on and release this issue of the 
journal. We hope that our authors and readers can appreciate this effort to maintain the 
periodicity of the journal. Have a good read! 

 
1 Mauro L. Condé [https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4156-2926] is a Professor in the Department of History 
at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). Address: Av. Antonio Carlos, 6627 – Belo Horizonte 
– MG. 31.270-901, Brazil. E-mail: mauroconde@ufmg.br