Medical populism and the COVID-19 pandemic

• Main Author: Lasco, Gideon
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• Subjects: COVID-19; pandemics; infectious disease outbreaks; health crisis; medical populism; global health; Clinical Epidemiology; Public Health
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/59; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17441692.2020.1807581
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This paper uses the vocabulary of ‘medical populism’ to identify and analyse the political constructions of (and responses to) the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, the Philippines, and the United States from January to mid-July 2020, particularly by the countries’ heads of state: Jair Bolsonaro, Rodrigo...