Summary

We find ourselves experiencing the greatest global public health crisis in decades, with political, social and economic impacts, due to the spread throughout the world of a new viral agent. No country on this planet is immune to a virus that has epidemic potential, given the high rate of human-to-human transmissibility. The entire population is susceptible because it is a new strain, due to the ease of contagion due to the mere fact of proximity between susceptible individuals, even without physical contact, and due to the great mobility of infected individuals.