Estado de alarma

January 7, 2020. The Congress of Deputies inaugurated Pedro Sánchez as president on the same day that a new, yet unnamed virus was discovered that had been intriguing Chinese doctors for weeks. At that time, the attention of an unknown Salvador Illa was divided between learning the skills of his new destination and the Catalan negotiations, in which he would have a relevant role. A few meters from his office, Fernando Simón, an epidemiologist whom no one had noticed until then, announced that in Spain there was no danger of a pandemic. What followed was the story of the biggest health crisis the country has seen in a century. The most extraordinary and unthinkable events for living generations. Only comparable, due to their exceptional nature and the number of victims, to what happens in a war. This book is a chronicle of those hundred days of the state of alarm, on how they were reached and how they were managed.