Statistics and political management during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic in Argentina

Claudia Daniel, Natalia Romero Marchesini & Cecilia T. Lanata-Briones (2022) Sociologias, 24(60), pp. 16-49. Open access Abstract. The Covid-19 pandemic triggered the generation as well as the ample circulation of health statistics. This article examines the role that Covid-19 statistics acquired in the management of the Argentine health emergency. Argentina adopted lockdown measures early and initially had a strict social confinement with subsequent relaxations that became a coordinat..