Abstract
We are on the brink of a public health crisis. Science is changing, medicine is evolving, politics are adapting as we are attempting to retain our "normal lives". The origin of COVID-19 is not exclusively a medical or scientific one. Rather, it lingers more towards damaged public policies with a global pandemic surfacing as merely a consequence of failed economic and health strategies. In this paper we provide a narrative review of the evolution of COVID-19 with emphasis on the its origin and the place of physicians in an ethical perspective.