Administration, WHO, and Covid-19: a conflicting relationship

Abstract

This text is the result of an exploratory work aiming to analyze the administrative aspects that are being used for the interpretation and resolution of the impacts caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic. The proposed discussion was based on the theoretical and methodological bases of political administration, considering it to be a more appropriate field of knowledge to interpret the facts and acts that give expression and meaning to social relations, mainly production and distribution. As an empirical basis, the study was structured to carry out a discussion based on a 'trilogy,' considering three main geospatial dimensions of analysis: WHO, an object of this first article; the behavior of developed countries, with emphasis on the USA, some European countries, China and Japan, and concluding with the analysis of Brazilian singularities. As a result of this first exercise on the design of the administration standard assumed by WHO, it was possible to conclude that the successes and errors in the management of the Covid-19 pandemic, globally, are defining the successes and failures of the intervention processes that aim to ultimate purpose to solve or at least mitigate social problems. WHO's inactions, especially about the emergency's declaratory decision, have increased the nation's costs and costs of the global economy.