Assesment of opinions of forensic science experts and technicians on global pandemic management strategies through SARS-CoV2 pandemic

The SARS-CoV2 pandemic has entered our lives as a pandemic that threatens the lives of millions of people. This study was implemented to assess the opinions of forensic science experts and technicians of The Ministry of Justice Council of Forensic Medicine on global pandemic management strategies including new technologies and future scenarios through SARS-Cov2 pandemic. In addition, this study was a prospective, descriptive research and was carried out with a questionnaire that was asked to 244 personnel (forensic medicine specialist, forensic medicine resident, technician, other specialist from a different field, other specialist phsician) working at The Ministry of Justice Council of Forensic Medicine. The 40-question survey included questions about participants' level of knowledge perception about the pandemic and attitudes on measures-their adequacy-necessity, technological applications and the future of global management strategies. 24.2% (n=59) of the participants were forensic medicine specialists, 29.5% (n=72) were forensic medicine residents, 18.9% (n=46) were technicians, 17.2% (n=42) were other specialist phsicians and 10.2% (n=25) were other specialists/engineers. 93.8% (n=229) of the participants thought they had knowledge about the pandemic and its transmission routes, 54.1% (n=132) found the applied pandemic management strategies effective and correct, and 76.6% (n =187) stated that it is necessary to use technological infrastructures in future scenarios. As a result, through hundreds of descriptive statictics results in 80 tables classified according to education level, occupation type and occupational experience level, in general, despite the changes in group tendencies according to different factors, the majority of participants were found to be obeying the routine necessities of the pandemic, hesitating on the global strategies, feeling closer to habitual technologies, feeling far to technologies which have never experienced before in daily life, giving answers with a high ratio of "no opinion" due to feeling obliged to give decisions gropely among unproven propabibilities or due to their hesitation on sharing their opinion even if they had an opinion. Moreover according to results, it was interpreted that social engineering could easily be performed in any spesifically designed group in the world. Keywords: Pandemic, SARS-CoV2, forensic sciences, forensic medicine, survey