In Argentina, during the year 2020, the National Government has implemented numerous and varied assistance, containment and promotion initiatives in key public policy sectors to respond to the crisis unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Likewise, provincial and local governments launched their own initiatives to support those emanating from the central level and facilitate the implementation and adaptation of national initiatives in their territories. The citizens, for their part, have adapted to, used or resisted the guidelines and proposals of the executives of the different levels of government. The pandemic scenario (in its different phases) exposes the tension between a centralized logic - typical of the design of initiatives aimed at responding to an emergency - and multilevel governance at a time when it is impossible to ignored that crisis contexts, such as the one imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, strongly stress the relations between the different levels of government and between these and the citizenry. In this context, this paper focuses on intergovernmental relations and examines the initiatives, devices and instruments mobilized by the different levels of government to respond to urban issues in general and housing needs in particular, in the pandemic context, focusing on the initiatives that had habitat and housing as a privileged axis of intervention. The work is based on the analysis of regulations and press material. It also draws on in-depth interviews with public officials and agents from different governmental levels. It presents the composition of the political organization of the Greater Buenos Aires Agglomerate and the political-institutional relations between thedifferent levels of government, as well as a characterization of the focal points for intervention, devices and instruments that made public interventions feasible (especially in the National Government, the Government of the City of Buenos Aires and the Government of the Province of Buenos Aires). To conclude, the paper focuses on territorially-based experiences in order to account for the initiatives from a bottom-up perspective.

In March 2020, the first case of coronavirus was registered in Argentina and care measures were adopted. From different spaces, research initiatives emerged addressing various problems related to this pandemic. In this framework, a working group was formed to develop a network research project: “COVID-19, Health and social protection: contributions from territorial care practices for the strengthening of comprehensive community mental health policies in the new postpandemic scenarios.” Its main objective is to describe the practices and experiences of health/mental health care developed by territorial actors, analyzing their articulation with government measures during the year 2020. The methodology used is exploratory descriptive, founded on the triangulation of sources, instruments and qualitative quantitative indicators, based on the systematization of practices and experiences of territorial actors and the analysis of their relationship with national, provincial and local public policies.

Various publications indicate that populations in situation of vulnerability are more exposed in relation to their health/mental health and it has also been analyzed that social participation is a central component in Community Health and constitutes, in cases of greater vulnerability, a condition to ensure survival.

This article characterizes the national government measures related to COVID-19 in Argentina, with respect to these populations, and analyzes those that make explicit reference to social participation.

This article analyzes the extent to which the pandemic, the confinement situation, the evaluation of the policies and attitudes of the leaders affected the subjectivities of Argentine citizens. Special attention is paid to the influence of the strong political polarization that existed previously and, also, to the ways in which the pandemic itself could have influenced political subjectivities. In addition, we have studied the reflections that, in a pandemic context, the majority of the population made about the meaning of their lives, also relating them to their political orientations. To carry out these analyses, a series of surveys were carried out throughout the year 2021 and a sample of semi-structured interviews in the months of April and May of that same year.

Faced with the economic crisis unleashed by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Argentine government reacted by deploying an unprecedented assistance policy in terms of its scope, design and method of implementation. The aim of this article is to analyze the measures aimed at companies and formal workers deployed during the first year of the pandemic in Argentina to cushion the shock to economic activity. The authors analyze the creation and implementation of the Emergency Assistance to Work and Production program. The methodological strategy combined quantitative and qualitative analysis of official sources, regulations and a set of interviews conducted in 2021. The latter allowed the authors to recover the experience of perception of the benefits in the productive units located in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, as well as the mediation networks involved in this policy. The findings reveal the initially massive nature of the assistance, which later gave way to the segmentation of state aid. In the case of assistance to the formal sector, post-launch adjustments were not only due to fiscal reasons, but also to the learning process of the authorities, the intervention of sectoral representatives and the ability of digital platforms to focus aid on those most in need.

Since its inception as a global pandemic, COVID-19 has been the subject of multiple appropriations around the world. With the possibility of writing and sharing information open due to current technological developments and digital media, a series of publications focused on reflecting on the impact of the pandemic around the world circulated during the first months of 2020.

The aim of this article is to analyze these publications, taking them as a valuable input to delve into the reflections that, from culture and social sciences, emerged on the pandemic. What can these articles show us, already more than two years after being published? What were the main ideas, concerns and diagnoses? Beyond these questions, we are also interested in investigating the construction of a network of meanings and notions that began to be associated with the disease and that, in its pandemic context, we believe is highly relevant to understanding the meanings that were incorporated into this new virus as it spread across the globe.

This article analyzes how the Covid-19 pandemic in Argentina modified communication both within the nursing sector, and with the people requiring treatment, their families or emotional ties, and institutional relations. Using a qualitative methodological strategy based on the analysis of interviews and the survey of national press, the authors organized three sections. The first section provides some notions about the characteristics of the health system and nursing education in Argentina. The second section analyzes the changes in hospital communication between nursing staff and patients with Covid-19 and, the third one describes communication experiences during the coronavirus vaccination campaign.

This article explores from a socio-epidemiological perspective the syndemic character acquired by the COVID-19 pandemic at the hospital level, belonging to the public health system in Argentina. Methodologically, semi-structured interviews were conducted with hospital workers from the southern area of the metropolitan region to the Federal Capital, by virtual meeting platforms, between the months of May and November 2021. The analysis of the narratives obtained about the experience of workers, makes it possible to understand certain dimensions that contribute to deepening the deterioration of working conditions, weakening and undermining the care and self-care processes of the workers themselves, linked not only to the imponderables of the pandemic being analyzed (while this occurs), but also to previous problems and are magnified during the epidemiological emergency. In this regard, the emergence of spaces for dialogue-collective work among workers is observed, as a fundamental cohesive force to promote any change or social transformation that materializes in a concrete way within the institution.