Covid-19 and its Paradoxes: An Economic-Bioethical Analysis of the Brazilian Reality

Abstract

Brazil was one of the countries that was most impacted by the pandemic, both in the epidemiological aspect and in the economic
causes. The federal government’s lack of social responsibility in dealing responsibly and seriously with the effects of COVID-19
has thrown Brazil, one of the largest economies in the world, down a slippery slope. Our work makes a bibliographical review
in the light of numbers and economic data from the beginning of the pandemic that portray how a country marked by a large
gap of social inequality, the irresponsibility of the federal government only increased the gap between social classes, that is,
excluded even more millions of people from the market of goods and services. Bioethics allied with economic thought showed
itself to be a g