A Cor Obert

On 13 March 2020 the home confinement was announced because of a global pandemic that has changed our lives. Oriol Mitjà, a medical researcher specialising in strategies to combat infectious diseases linked to poverty, had been warning since February about the dangers of an illness, covid-19, that would become the leading cause of death in our country. In this book, the most media-visible scientist of the moment opens the doors of his heart to tell us about his origins, his childhood in Arenys de Munt, how his vocation took shape, his pioneering work against yaws in Papua New Guinea, and the cutting-edge research he has taken part in on the coronavirus. He also recounts the chronicle of events inside a divided government that was overtaken by circumstances.