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On March 13, 2020, a home confinement was announced due to a global pandemic that has changed our lives. Oriol Mitjà, WHO advisor and scientist at the European Research Council specialized in strategies to combat infectious diseases related to poverty, had been warning since February of the dangers of a disease, COVID-19, which would become the leading cause of death in our country. In this book, Mitjà, who faced different political authorities on numerous occasions for his management of the most important health crisis in decades, tells us about his origins, how his vocation emerged, about his pioneering experience in the fight against pian in Papua New Guinea, of the cutting-edge research against the coronavirus in which he has participated and of his difficulties in getting scientific criteria to be adopted by governments overcome by circumstances.