Reflections on the COVID 19, from the social perspective

Abstract

The year 2020 surprises the world with a new coronavirus that produces the illness COVID-19 highly contagious, of a significant lethality. The illness expands to all the continents and turns into a challenge for the scientific community, the systems of health, the social services, the national governments and the media of social communication. Before the emergency, the social knowledge helps to the mobilization and social incorporation of persons and groups to the health promotion, to the generation, implementation and evaluation of social policies directed to minimize the effects of the pandemic. The present work proposes as objective to analyze, from the perspective of the interrelation between science, technology and society, the models of social development which prioritize the economy instead of other aspects of the social life.