Apprehending the Covid-19 pandemic as a global trauma, we investigate how young people from the five Brazilian regions deal with the health crisis and its consequences based on their interactions with the news. In an environment marked by material and symbolic loses and crossed by an excess of information and misinformation, we seek to understand how our informants react to media exposure to the traumatic event and the meanings they produce for what we consider a generational trauma (Edmunds, Turner, 2005). For this purpose, we carried out a literature review on media and trauma, media literacy, and infodemic, and present the results of an online survey conducted in the last two months of 2020 with 855 people between 15 and 29 years old