Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and spatial control in times of pandemic

• Published in: Infection control and hospital epidemiology Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 404 - 405
• Main Authors: Carneiro, Marcelo, Darsie, Camilo, Koepp, Janine, Valim, Andreia Rosane de Moura, Possuelo, Lia Gonçalves, Kist, Marina Weiss, Krummenauer, Eliane Carlosso, Menezes, Rochele Mosman de, Vargas, Lea, Brenner, Pola A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Cambridge University Press 01-03-2022
• Subjects: Biological control; Biopolitics; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Disease transmission; Geopolitics; Health care; Humans; Infections; Letter to the Editor; Pandemics; Pandemics - prevention & control; SARS-CoV-2; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Social isolation; Swine flu
• ISSN: 0899-823X; 1559-6834
• DOI: 10.1017/ice.2020.1424

Pulmonary epithelial cells are the main target of the virus.1 The worldwide proliferation of this virus has caused a pandemic capable of changing paradigms related to healthcare delivery, and the resources needed to cope with the disease have directly influenced the safety of medical care offered to individuals on a global scale. [...]with the increase in a mobile and diverse global population with different lifestyles and the inequalities related to health care, the dissemination of new infectious agents has occurred, primarily through the transmission of disease-producing viruses that have escaped the usual biological control mechanisms. Individuals live and are inseparable from their environments, therefore, experience different spatialities. [...]the places they live produce different ways of being.4 Thus, far from an attempt to question the validity of social isolation, the importance of questioning the effects of such a biopolitical strategy emerges.