Covid-19 du meilleur au pire: la gestion de crise à la tchèque
Covid-19 from best to worst: management Czech style crisis

Author(s): Zuzana Kotherová, Michel Perottino
Subject(s): Economy, Sociology, International relations/trade, Security and defense
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Czech Republic; Covid-19; Czech healthcare system; public health; Czech government; pandemic
Summary/Abstract: This paper maps the Covid-19 pandemic evolution in the Czech Republic: from the “best in Covid” in spring 2020 through three heavy epidemic waves during autumn and winter 2020 to one of the most hit countries in the world in the spring season 2021 in terms of deads. The aim of this contribution is to let the reader understand better this Czech anomaly by studying two possible factors of this negative balance: the state of the art of the Czech healthcare system before the pandemic and political management of the crisis. The results of our article show that the Czech healthcare system seems to be financially stable and relatively well prepared for the potential crisis in terms of personal, technical, and medical capacities – even if situation in the public health is far from ideal. On the contrary, the competence of the Czech government in managing the Covid-19 pandemics remains controversial – for this reason, the pros and cons of the political management of the crises are discussed.

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