Introducción
Author | Manuel Alcántara Sáez y Salvador Martí i Puig |
Pages | 11-24 |
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 ecaz 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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