Cuba defies odds as it seeks to share home-grown vaccine success with the world

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The small island nation highlighted strength of its health service by developing its own vaccine, which is available to children as young as two

Daniel Bardsley
Feb 20, 2022

Under US embargoes for decades and blighted by an ageing power infrastructure that is prone to cuts, Cuba may seem an unlikely saviour to parts of the world struggling for Covid-19 vaccines.

But the country of 11.3 million punches well above its weight when it comes to medicine: it has a strong research sector, is a health care tourism destination and sends doctors and nurses to work around the world, including the Gulf region.

It is less surprising, then, that Cuba is in discussions about its locally developed coronavirus vaccines being used in more than a dozen nations – on top of those that have already given them to their people.

Efforts to distribute the shots out more widely came after Cuba achieved one of the highest vaccine coverage figures in the world on home soil.

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https://www.thenationalnews.com/coronavirus/2022/02/20/cuba-defies-odds-as-it-seeks-to-share-home-grown-vaccine-success-with-the-world/

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1. I remember Michael Moore taking 911 responders to Cuba for medical treatment.

I don't recall why they couldn't get treatment here in the States, but I'm sure it had to do with insurance or some other kind of administrative or financial bullshit.