Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and spatial control in times of pandemic

Pulmonary epithelial cells are the main target of the virus.1 The worldwide proliferation of this virus has caused a pandemic capable of changing paradigms related to healthcare delivery, and the resources needed to cope with the disease have directly influenced the safety of medical care offered to individuals on a global scale. [...]with the increase in a mobile and diverse global population with different lifestyles and the inequalities related to health care, the dissemination of new infectious agents has occurred, primarily through the transmission of disease-producing viruses that have escaped the usual biological control mechanisms. Individuals live and are inseparable from their environments, therefore, experience different spatialities. [...]the places they live produce different ways of being.4 Thus, far from an attempt to question the validity of social isolation, the importance of questioning the effects of such a biopolitical strategy emerges.