Following the declaration of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, a vast body of literature has developed globally reflecting on the causes that led to the shaping of the health crisis and the role played by human actions in it. In that regard, the article discusses the complex social-nature relationship and, in particular, the sublusion that capitalism exerts on human practices which, guided by the logic of value, produce a social metabolism which manifests the way in which modern societies participate in the production of a natural environment, the material and cultural fabric of which does not make it possible to maintain human health in their coexistence with the bodies which live there. In this way, it is argued that the current pandemic is the result of social metabolism, such as Marx lo llamara, that capitalism produces in a bid to accumulate value. The dislocation that the logic of value introduces into the social reproduction structure has led to the emergence of social practices that, through medical and pharmaceutical development, agro-industrial and agri-food activity, and the abandonment of public health systems, among others, have produced a spatial order in which the emergence of the new coronavirus found the material conditions that boosted its dynamics and ultimately resulted in the formation of a metabolic fracture that manifests itself today in the form of a pandemic.