ABSTRACT This article presents an analysis of the actions to support health teams in a small city in the State of Rio de Janeiro in the fight against Covid-19, in a university-municipal partnership. The cartographic approach of the micropolitics of work and health care was the framework that guided the work. Permanent health education workshops were held over the internet, with the healthcare teams and managers of the Primary Care teams, coordinated by the researchers. In these meetings, problem situations were identified and, among them, the fear of being contaminated, of contaminating others, and of dying emerged, negatively interfering with daily work. These fears were mapped, as well as their concrete implications and the potencies and tools to face them; Fear in times of pandemic was discussed, as a weakness and as a power, the recognition of intuition-intelligence and collective practice, as elements for facing difficulties, from which is possible to observe the passage from the state of hope as a noun to hope as verb, or ‘hope-doing’.