GA2-240202501-AA1-REPORTAR OPINIONES SOBRE SITUACIONES COTIDIANAS Y LABORALES, PASADAS

Y FUTURAS EN CONTEXTOS SOCIALES.

PRESENTADO POR:

MIGUEL ALEXANDER GOMEZ RAMIREZ

FICHA: 2853091

SERVICIO NACIONAL DE APRENDIZAJE SENA

AÑO 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 sometían 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 had no echo in the preparation of the countries to face what ould come

and the health systems, far from being strengthened, in many cases were dismantled, obsolete to

provide a decent service and save lives.

 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 wad 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".

 It is noteworthy that this change of life affected us very much, given that our human,

economic and social relationships were broken, in such a way that divorces increased, mental

illnesses arose, due to confinement, this was a great change for humanity and it is still weighing

us down.

It should be noted that as time continues to pass we will continue to be afraid of a new

pandemic, because the one we are experiencing caused many wounds in the world.