Pandemic time gap

an analytical intersection between the global spread of SARS-CoV-2 and the prisms of public health and social sciences in Brazil

Abstract

This article aims to discuss both empirical and scientific issues related to the proliferation of the SARS-CoV-2, ranging from its inception to the developments of recent months since the virus crossed Chinese territorial borders, becoming the most unwanted tourist in recent centuries. In line with the above, the goal is to briefly address along the pages the impacts that the virus has highlighted in the social, economic and political sphere of countries recognized as the epicenter of the disease, but detailing with emphasis the Brazilian scenario before the invisible enemy ever faced, thus pointing errors, successes and medical measures to be adopted by global citizens. Moreover, it is also intended to achieve as a result of the study to be developed below, the realization of an association of this chaos with the three pillars of social sciences, which are anthropology, political science and sociology, there is still space to talk about the professional protagonists of the current war declared to the coronavirus, as well as to highlight the challenges of Brazilian public health in the midst of the cloudy period that covers the skies of the world today in times of pandemic. To achieve these goals, the scientific database SciELO, CAPES, RT online and LILACS were used as a guide in addition to empirical criticism.