The resilience of the Spanish health system against the COVID-19 pandemic
Helena Legido-Quigley
José Tomás Mateos-García
Vanesa Regulez Campos
Montserrat Gea-Sánchez
Carles Muntaner
Martin McKee
Open AccessPublished:March 18, 2020DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30060-8
Spain, with more than 11?000 cases and 491 deaths as of March 17, 2020, has one of the highest burdens of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide. In response, its government used a royal decree (463/2020)1 to declare a 15-day national emergency, starting on March 15.