Resumen

GUZMAN TIRADO, María Guadalupe; RESIK AGUIRRE, Sonia  y  KOURI CARDELLA, Vivian. Health Systems and science in the confrontation with COVID-19. Transition from pandemic to endemic. Anales de la ACC [online]. 2023, vol.13, n.2  Epub 08-Mar-2024. ISSN 2304-0106.

This paper reviews the main characteristics of the COVID-19 pandemic, that showed the need of an interdisciplinary, integrated, compromised, fast answer of the science community in order to knew the phenomenon, to controlled and prevent, of the speed in the development and application of the scientific results, of the international interchange and collaboration, of the updating of the information in real time, of the participation of scientific institution, industry, governments, international organizations and the population.

As it was evident in the Cuban case, to face such phenomenon it is required the politic will and the leadership of the government in order to mobilize economical and social sectors, with a high humanitarian sense, focus in the collaboration and the conscious commitment, the action of executives, workers and communities.

COVID-19 will keep coexisting with us as and endemic. The construction of a new normality, better and fairer than the one that brought us here, requires to face all the dimensions of a complex reality, where it must be faced the unfair economic global order and the right to development of all countries must be accomplished.

Palabras clave : Pandemic; endemic; health systems; science; integration.

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