The article is based on interviews, carried out since January 2021, to address the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, analyzing, first, the precariousness of public policies in these places and the unfolding of this reality in the context of Covid-19. The study also intends to question the notion of favelas as spaces of absence to understand the richness and creativity of the knowledge that circulates there and that are manifested precisely in contexts of crises, such as the current pandemic.
