The need for an independent evaluation of the COVID-19 response in Spain

Alberto García-Basteiro; Carlos Alvarez-Dardet; Alex Arenas; Rafael Bengoa; Carme Borrell; Margarita Del Val; Manuel Franco; Montse Gea-Sánchez; Juan Jesús Gestal Otero; Beatriz González López Valcárcel; Ildefonso Hernández; Joan Carles March; José M Martin-Moreno; Clara Menéndez; Sergio Minué; Carles Muntaner; Miquel Porta; Daniel Prieto-Alhambra; Carmen Vives-Cases; Helena Legido-Quigley

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31713-X

The need for an independent evaluation of the COVID-19 response in Spain

Lancet. 2020 Aug 22;396(10250):529-530. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31713-X. Epub 2020 Aug 6.

Authors

Alberto García-Basteiro¹, Carlos Alvarez-Dardet², Alex Arenas³, Rafael Bengoa⁴, Carme Borrell⁵, Margarita Del Val⁶, Manuel Franco⁷, Montse Gea-Sánchez⁸, Juan Jesús Gestal Otero⁹, Beatriz González López Valcárcel¹⁰, Ildefonso Hernández¹¹, Joan Carles March¹², José M Martin-Moreno¹³, Clara Menéndez¹⁴, Sergio Minué¹², Carles Muntaner¹⁵, Miquel Porta¹⁶, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra¹⁷, Carmen Vives-Cases¹⁸, Helena Legido-Quigley¹⁹

Affiliations

¹ ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça, Maputo, Mozambique.
² Facultad Es Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain; Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, CIBER de Epidemilogía y Salud Pública, Barcelona, Spain.
³ Departament d'Enginyeria Informática I Matemàtiques, Univeristat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.
⁴ Formely Ministry of Health, Basque Government, Basque Country, Spain.
⁵ Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, CIBER de Epidemilogía y Salud Pública, Barcelona, Spain.
⁶ Viral Immunology, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain; Interdisciplinary Platform on Global Health at the Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain.
⁷ Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁸ Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain.
⁹ Epidemiology and Public Health, Universidad De Santiago De Compostela, Galicia, Spain.
¹⁰ Department of Quantitative Methods in Economics and Management, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
¹¹ Department of Public Health, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Alicante, Spain.
¹² Escuela Andaluza de Salúd Pública, Granada, Spain.
¹³ Department of Preventive Medicine & INCLIVA, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
¹⁴ Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain.
¹⁵ Lawrence S Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
¹⁶ Instituto Hospital del Mar de Investigaciones Médicas, Barcelona, Spain.
¹⁷ Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology, and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹⁸ Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, CIBER de Epidemilogía y Salud Pública, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Community Nursing, Preventive Medicine and Public Health and History of Science, Alicante University, Alicante, Spain; CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health, Madrid, Spain.
¹⁹ London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK; Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Electronic address: helena.legido-quigley@lshtm.ac.uk.

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Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis*
Coronavirus Infections / therapy*
Delivery of Health Care / organization & administration
Delivery of Health Care / standards*
Disaster Planning / organization & administration
Disaster Planning / standards
Humans
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis*
Pneumonia, Viral / therapy*
SARS-CoV-2
Spain