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0350/2020 - The influence of the US response to COVID-19 in the Global Health context
A influência da resposta dos EUA à COVID-19 no contexto da Saúde Global

Author:

• Fabius Vieira Leineweber - Leineweber, F.V. - <fabius.leineweber@far.fiocruz.br>
ORCID: ttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4151-449X

Co-author(s):

• Jorge Antonio Zepeda Bermudez - Bermudez, J. A. Z. - <jorge.bermudez@fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4657-0709


Abstract:

The American response to the pandemic involves a prominent volume of federal resources, especially for the development and acquisition of products for internal use, such as diagnostics or vaccines. The justifications for this expenditure reside on investment mechanisms and historical aspects. Thus, the social construction of nationalism in the American society hinders access to health technologies. The review of such aspects demonstrate how the USA guaranteed the purchase of a large number of potential products, also ensuring excessive local production. This unilateral foreign policy has influenced other countries or regional blocs and it has undermined global cooperation and solidarity with impacts for the collective health of several nations.

Keywords:

COVID-19; Health Sciences, Technology, and Innovation Management; Government Agencies; Access to Technological Innovation

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