I swear a tractor ran over me. Today I'm better.
Aos 73 anos, Márcia Sensitiva — astróloga, médium e personalidade televisiva com mais de sete milhões de seguidores — enfrenta em um leito de semi-intensivo do Hospital Einstein, em São Paulo, aquilo que a fragilidade humana frequentemente revela: que a fama não protege o corpo, e que a doença encontra seus próprios caminhos independentemente da força de vontade. Uma infecção dupla — vírus sincicial respiratório somado a uma infecção bacteriana — agravada por uma condição autoimune preexistente, colocou em xeque décadas de resiliência pública. Ainda assim, ela trabalha do leito e pede às pessoas que se vacinem — transformando a própria vulnerabilidade em mensagem.
- O que começou como uma gripe intensa rapidamente evoluiu para uma combinação perigosa de VSR e infecção bacteriana, com acúmulo de secreções e pus nas vias nasais.
- A doença autoimune reumática preexistente de Márcia comprometeu severamente sua resposta imunológica, deixando seu corpo com poucos recursos para combater a infecção dupla.
- O tratamento é intensivo: dois tipos de antibióticos intravenosos, inaloterapia contínua e monitoramento constante em unidade de semi-intensivo.
- Mesmo debilitada — descrevendo a sensação de que 'um trator passou por cima' dela —, Márcia continua respondendo seguidores e gerenciando seu conteúdo digital todas as manhãs.
- A melhora gradual é encorajadora, mas a recuperação completa ainda depende das próximas semanas, dado o histórico recente de aneurisma na carótida e crises autoimunes.
Márcia Sensitiva, astróloga e apresentadora de televisão com mais de sete milhões de seguidores no Instagram, está internada em unidade de semi-intensivo do Hospital Einstein, em São Paulo, desde a segunda semana de maio. O que parecia uma gripe forte revelou-se uma combinação de vírus sincicial respiratório e infecção bacteriana — complicação agravada por uma doença autoimune reumática preexistente que já havia enfraquecido suas defesas imunológicas.
Em vídeo gravado do leito e publicado nas redes sociais no dia 14 de maio, ela descreveu a experiência com o humor que marca sua personalidade pública: "Juro que um trator passou por cima de mim", disse com a voz rouca. Ao fundo, seu filho Fabio a ajudava a lembrar os nomes técnicos dos diagnósticos. O tratamento inclui dois tipos de antibióticos intravenosos, inaloterapia e medicação contínua.
Não é a primeira vez que Márcia enfrenta uma crise de saúde séria. Em fevereiro de 2025, passou por cirurgia para retirada de um aneurisma na artéria carótida. Meses depois, em fevereiro de 2026, correu ao pronto-socorro com dores musculares intensas ligadas à mesma condição autoimune que agora complica sua recuperação.
Mesmo hospitalizada, Márcia não parou de trabalhar — responde perguntas de seguidores todas as manhãs, "mesmo caindo aos pedaços", como ela mesma disse. Da cama, usou sua plataforma para pedir fé, perseverança e, sobretudo, vacinação, alertando para os riscos do VSR em crianças pequenas e em pessoas imunocomprometidas — categoria à qual ela agora pertence. A melhora gradual que relata acende uma esperança de retorno, mas as semanas à frente dirão se seu corpo conseguirá se recuperar plenamente.
Márcia Sensitiva, the 73-year-old astrologer and television personality who has built a following of more than seven million people on Instagram alone, is lying in a semi-intensive care unit at Einstein Hospital in São Paulo, tethered to monitoring equipment and fighting a dual infection that has left her voice hoarse and her body depleted. She arrived at the hospital in the second week of May after what began as what seemed like a severe flu evolved into something far more serious: respiratory syncytial virus combined with a bacterial infection that had accumulated secretions and pus in her nasal passages. The combination would have been difficult enough on its own. But Márcia carries a preexisting autoimmune condition—a rheumatic disease that had already compromised her immune system—which meant her body had far fewer resources to mount a defense.
In a video she recorded from her hospital bed and posted to social media on Thursday, May 14th, she described the experience with the dark humor that has defined her public persona. "I swear a tractor ran over me," she said, her voice rough from the illness. "I spent several days just lying there, obviously. Today I'm better. Yesterday I still had a lot of pain, shortness of breath, chest pain." Her son Fabio appeared in the background, helping her recall the technical names of her diagnoses—the kind of detail that grounds a medical crisis in the specific and real.
The treatment regimen is intensive. Two types of antibiotics flow through her veins. She receives inhalation therapy. Medication runs continuously. Yet even from the hospital bed, Márcia has not stopped working. She sits each morning, she explained in the video, "even though I'm falling apart," answering questions from followers and managing the content that keeps her digital presence alive. This is not a woman inclined toward surrender, even when her body is telling her to rest.
This hospitalization is not her first brush with serious illness. In February of 2025, she underwent surgery to remove an aneurysm from her carotid artery—a procedure that required doctors to thread a catheter up through her leg to her neck. She woke from that surgery asking for pizza. Then, just a few months ago in February of 2026, she rushed to the emergency room with severe muscle pain that turned out to be connected to the autoimmune disease now complicating her current fight against the respiratory virus.
Márcia Fernandes—her given name—was born in São Paulo on April 29, 1952. She works as a clairvoyant, numerologist, medium, reiki master, television presenter, speaker, and author. Her television career began in the early 2000s when she made contact with the deceased brother of a producer connected to Silvio Santos and was invited to appear on SBT's "Programa Livre." Over the past two decades, she has become a fixture on Brazilian television and radio, but it was the internet that transformed her from a known figure into a phenomenon. She has written four books on holistic topics and conducts private consultations and lectures across the country.
From her hospital bed, Márcia has used her platform to deliver three messages to her followers: have faith, do not give up, and get vaccinated. She has promised to share information from physician Drauzio Varella about respiratory syncytial virus, emphasizing that the virus poses particular danger to young children and people whose immune systems are already compromised—a category she now inhabits. The gradual improvement she reports suggests she may yet leave the hospital to return to the work that has defined her life, but the weeks ahead will determine whether her body can fully recover from an infection that found her at her most vulnerable.
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I swear a tractor ran over me. I spent several days just lying there. Today I'm better. Yesterday I still had a lot of pain, shortness of breath, chest pain.— Márcia Sensitiva, in a video posted from her hospital bed
I sit every morning, even though I'm falling apart, and work answering the questions you send me and doing the things that need to be done for the website.— Márcia Sensitiva, describing her continued work during hospitalization
A Conversa do Hearth Outra perspectiva sobre a história
What made this particular illness so much worse than it might have been for someone else?
She had already been living with an autoimmune disease—a rheumatic condition that had weakened her immune system. When the respiratory virus hit, her body didn't have the usual defenses. It's like showing up to a fight already injured.
She kept working from the hospital bed. Why would someone do that?
Because stopping would mean admitting defeat, maybe. Or because the work is what keeps her tethered to the world she's built. Seven million people follow her. That's not just a job—it's a relationship.
The video she posted—was she trying to reassure people, or was she being honest about how bad it was?
Both. She said she felt like a tractor ran over her. That's honest. But she also said she was getting better. She wasn't hiding the severity; she was refusing to be defined by it.
This is her second major health crisis in about a year.
Yes. The aneurysm surgery last year, now this. At 73, her body has been through a lot. But she's still here, still working, still talking to her followers about vaccination and resilience.
What's the real story underneath this?
It's about someone who has built her entire life around connection—to audiences, to followers, to the spiritual realm—and refusing to let illness sever those threads, even when her body is screaming at her to stop.