In an analysis published in the UFRGS newspaper , Professor Marcelo Kunrath shows several civil society initiatives that are playing a fundamental role in the fight against COVID-19. However, he points out that, although commendable, these initiatives have a short term. He argues that governments need to assume, in fact, their role in this conjuncture by presenting more qualified public policies. For which there is no lack of good proposals exemplified by universities and civil society.