Analysis of the public policies deployed in South America to face the COVID-19 pandemic
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Abstract
Latin America was one of the worst hit regions after the outbreak of the so-called COVID-19 virus, declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020.
Over time, the region became a critical area due to the rapid spread of infections and deaths caused by the then unknown virus. The situation was aggravated by the initial ignorance of the supervening disease, as well as the respective palliative treatment. Added to this was the shortage of specialized personnel and infrastructure to contain a health crisis of such magnitude. All this within a historical context marked by the subsistence of the region's structural problems, namely, the socioeconomic inequalities of its population, the fragmented and precarious health systems, as well as the high levels of labor informality.
In this context, urgent measures were taken to limit, mitigate and contain the impact of the pandemic on the health, quality of life and economy of the population. However, the public policies that were proposed (confinement and economic reactivation) were not without controversy, so through this work we will analyze them highlighting their most important aspects.
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