Contagion: Nothing spreads like fear. Narration and deliberation about a pandemic

Films are a cultural experience to understand reality. But reality is complex and multidimensional;incomprehensible without the moral dimension of the facts that we have in front of our eyes. Narrative ethics allows us to imagine the moral background of all the processes that accompany health and disease in the individual and in the collective, in the biological and in the social. The film Contagion (Sodelberg, 2011) is a disturbing reflection on the global consequences of an infectious disease in terms of the uncertainty it produces and the fear and lack of control it arouses. More than its predictive value on the COVID-19 pandemic, its greatest success is to exemplify the behavior of pandemics in an interconnected and globalized world. The narration of this film invites us to reflect on how to manage, from a public morality, great health crises. Only the search for the common good can hinder individual freedom, only autonomy understood as relational can weave a fabric of shared responsibilities, only public deliberation can be translated into trust towards institutions. © 2020 Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and Universitat de Girona. All rights reserved.

Digestive endoscopy during the COVID-19 pandemic

Introduction: COVID-19 is the disease caused by the infection of the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which was discovered at the end of 2019 in China and has caused millions of patients worldwide. Objective: To describe the work characteristics related to digestive endoscopy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Material and methods: A bibliographic review was carried out using bibliographic databases, guides and search engines. Information from national and international sites was used. The quality and validity of the selected articles were analyzed. Development: The transmission of SARS-CoV-2 has been determined by several routes, the respiratory one being the most accepted in which there is a generation of aerosols that are also produced through endoscopic procedures. For this reason, different guidelines and care protocols have been established to perform safe endoscopies for patients and endoscopy personnel. Conclusions: In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, prevention is the most important strategy, putting the world's health systems to the test and implementing adjusted forms of medical care to prevent the spread of the disease in patients and healthcare personnel. © 2020 Universidad de Ciencias Medicas de La Hab. All rights reserved.