HEALTH HARMS TO MARGINALIZED POPULATIONS DURING THE PANDEMIC OF COVID-19: A REALITY ARISING FROM THE NATURALIZATION OF NECROPOLITICS

Abstract

COVID-19 appeared on China's Wuhan Peninsula, however, a few months after the first case, the World Health Organization declared a pandemic state, so some measures to contain the virus were adopted, such as social isolation. In this sense, the present study consists of an integrative literature review and aims to analyze the interference of necropolitics in health problems of marginalized populations during the pandemic of COVID-19. Thus, a survey of articles published in the years 2018 to 2022, written in Portuguese, English and Spanish, was conducted. For its construction, the DeCS- the Descriptors in Health Science were used as reference, and the descriptors used for the search of the writings, were: "COVID-19 AND Politics AND Death", which resulted in 27 articles, in the databases: Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS), in the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) and in the Nursing Database (BDENF). Therefore, the studies show that necropolitics interfered significantly in the problems of historically marginalized populations, because they point out that COVID-19 affected citizens in a different way, since black people, those with lower income and those living in the periphery were the most prevalent in the incidences of contamination and death from the pathology. Moreover, the existing necropolitics in the country, especially during the pandemic of COVID-19, exposes and reinforces the social inequalities that subjected a significant portion of the population to a greater susceptibility