Solutions to fight COVID-19 – SIMIX

Get to know our smart answers and solutions to fight COVID–19 in Local … Only through working with each community is it possible to persuade people to

• Globalization justifies why diseases become global at an unprecedented rate. The freedom and speed with which we travel on a global scale are one of the most efficient vehicles of contagion and foster the exponential growth of the virus worldwide.
• Our challenges are greater today, but our combat weapons are also stronger. Data economics, collaboration between scientists and information in public opinion become extremely relevant in this struggle.
• With approximately half the world in lockdown, cities face enormous challenges to maintain a relative normality in the provision of public services (water, waste, energy, transportation, among others), to maintain law and order, to guarantee supply chains, support small businesses and ensure health services for all. Only through working with each community is it possible to persuade people to adopt new behaviors and new ways of life.

In the future, we believe that cities will be better prepared for this type of challenge. To respond to this new pandemic, several talks are underway, in order to prepare the stages of recovery and resilience. The first step in these phases is to understand the “new normal” of cities and to anticipate situations like this.