Introduction:

Nursing is directly involved in confronting COVID-19 by assisting infected individuals, preventing transmission, and mitigating its social effects on collective well-being.

Objective:

To understand how the Nursing praxis could be effective in facing COVID-19 by considering the social/collective face of the process.

Content synthesis:

Historical (dialectical) materialism contributes to understanding the elements of the objective reality of the pandemic, which in the field of Nursing establishes bridges with the Theory of Nursing Praxis Intervention in Collective Health (Tipesc, in Portuguese). Environmental changes and the process of the "globalization of capital" are relevant to understand the origins of the pandemic. Economic, political, and cultural contradictions arise from this social process and then are reflected in collective health. Hence, nursing must intervene in this objective reality based on collectively constructed proposals in the field of social struggles and public policies with the aim of transforming such contradictions.

Conclusions:

Although with some flaws in its original proposal, the Tipesc proved to be a fruitful possibility for understanding the social dimension of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in reflecting on the possibility of a strategic confrontation amidst social struggles.

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