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This research aims to discuss the emotions of health professionals in the frontline activities during the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil. Throughout the analysis of sociology of emotions, and body and care. The research analyzes nearly twenty journalistic reports (written and television) from April 20 to 30, 2020. Resorting the analysis of thematic content, we reached the categories: being a mother and professional in the pandemic; the care in the pandemic between death and the fear of dying; and having conquered death in the pandemic: hopes. Results suggest women's difficulties in reconciling productive life in hospitals and health clinics and family care. Fears of the illness and death of themselves and other acquaintances were also found, including co-workers, in addition to the social elaborations of the hope of curing the disease and the praises with rituals of healing of people who overcame Covid-19.