Experts, knowledge and social practices: attitudes towards COVID-19 in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Abstract

According to the United Nations (Naciones Unidas,2021), the impact of the quarantine on Argentina was very negative: povertyincreased from 35.5 per cent in the second half of 2019 to 42 per cent in thesecond half of 2020. In addition, access to health care (for non-COVID-19issues) was reduced: 42 per cent of households reported not having generalhealth checks during the quarantine, and 20 per cent were unable to comply withmandatory child vaccinations.This is the context in which we observe somedimensions related to knowledge about the disease, the norms andrecommendations that were developed, the ways in which people were informed,and the credibility of different sources of information, as well as the degreeto which these recommendations were followed.