Introducción

AuthorManuel Alcántara Sáez y Salvador Martí i Puig
Pages11-24
INTRODUCCIÓN
Manuel ALCÁNTARA SÁEZ
Salvador MARTÍI PUIG
«La gestión política de las epidemias pone en escena la utopía de co-
munidad y las fantasías inmunitarias de una sociedad, externalizando sus
sueños de omnipotencia de su soberanía política».
P (2020)
1. UNA PANDEMIA INESPERADA Y CRUCIAL: ¿UNA NUEVA
COYUNTURA CRÍTICA?
A nales de 2019 empezó a propagarse en Wuhan (provincia de Hubei,
China) un nuevo tipo de virus de la familia Coronaviridae, que posterior-
mente se denominó SARS-CoV-2 y cuya enfermedad se llamó COVID-19.
Dicho virus afecta a las vías respiratorias y en casos extremos puede pro-
vocar neumonías mortales.
La aparición de este virus contra el que (en el momento de escribir
este libro) no existe vacuna ecaz ha causado una de las mayores alarmas
sanitarias del último medio siglo, generando un gran impacto humano,
social y económico.
En sus inicios, el gobierno chino trató de contener la epidemia, de-
cretando la cuarentena y aislamiento de más de 35 millones de personas
residentes en la provincia, pero la infección no cesó. El 30 de enero, la Or-
ganización Mundial de la Salud declaró el brote de SARS-CoV-2 en China
Emergencia de Salud Pública de Importancia Internacional, y posterior-
mente fue considerada pandemia.

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