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MARCO ANTONIO VELEZ GENES

NATIONAL LEARNING SERVICE SENA

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

 CHRONICLE COVID 19

The emergence of the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus in just a few months has placed
the world

at a crossroads, causing some 300,000 deaths so far and infecting more than 4.5
million

people, in addition to causing an unparalleled economic crisis and change human

relationships, introducing new forms of work and socialization.

This profound impact and the transformations that it has implied, however, should
not be

surprising because they had been noticed over the years, recalled Professor José
Ramón

Acosta Sariego, master's degree in bioethics and doctor of philosophical sciences,

who

directs the master's degree in bioethics of the University of Havana.

“It is a chronicle of something that was announced. For some years now, the
forecasting

models predicted catastrophic events of a global scope, there was even talk of the

possibility of global epidemics ”, said the specialist in an interview with UN News.

SARS 2, which appeared in 2002, and the H1N1 flu (2009), were harbingers of
what could

come, he added.

But these warnings did not have an echo in the preparation of the countries to face
what

could come and health systems, far from being strengthened, in many cases were

dismantled.
Dr. Acosta cited the study published last October by John Hopkins University in
which the

Global Index on Healthcare Systems Safety was presented, which analyzes the
capacity of

countries to respond to a health emergency and affirms that “none are prepared to
face

an epidemic or pandemic ”and that“ everyone has important gaps to fill ”.

"National health security is basically weak around the world," is the main
conclusion of

the document.

The index shows that the United States is the country with the greatest capacity to
take

care of the health of its citizens and face a surprise event of great proportions;
However,

he adds that despite this ability, he does not have the necessary preparation to do
so. It is currently the country hardest hit by the pandemic with figures that exceed
1.5 million

infected and 90,000 deaths.

In his opinion, the present of the world is very compromised because "we know
that we

are going to leave but under what conditions we are going to leave, it is still
uncertain."

“It is a reality that the economic and social model that was imposed after the end of
the

cold war and its strict application of neoliberal precepts were dismantling the social
care

systems, within them the health systems, even those that had reached the
industrial

societies. Health systems were already insufficient to solve daily health problems,
much
less were they prepared to face a disaster situation that, in any case, goes beyond
the

health field. There has to be a forecast about what a society can do in a disaster
situation

”, he emphasized.

Professor Acosta referred to the case of Spain, "which came to have one of the
best health

systems in the world", but which was dismantled in the 1990s and which "was
unable to

face the pandemic in a first moment".