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This is pretty exciting news. Cuba has a long history of sending medical aid to other developing countries, and right now the vaccine timeline for a lot of poor
by bccdee 5y ago
This is pretty exciting news. Cuba has a long history of sending medical aid to other developing countries, and right now the vaccine timeline for a lot of poor African countries is really, really bad. If this pans out, it could save a lot of lives.
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- sonograph 5y ago> This is pretty exciting news. Cuba has a long history of sending medical aid to other developing countries, and right now the vaccine timeline for a lot of poor African countries is really, really bad. If this pans out, it could save a lot of lives. Does Cuba have the capacity to produce enough vaccines for those nations? That would be really surpising to me
- disgruntledphd2 5y agoThey'll probably be more likely to share enough technical know how that production elsewhere is possible.
- alamortsubite 5y agoI don't know the answer to that question, but since this is a protein vaccine it should at least be much easier to manufacture at scale.
- jonas_kgomo 5y agoCuba is also known to train African doctors and return them back to Africa. They also helped South Africa during the apartheid regime
- kortilla 5y agoThat has no relation to vaccine production at all.
- LightG 5y agoIt relates in terms of Cuba's attitude to international aid and the possibility of doing something similar with the vaccines.
- sudosysgen 5y agoIt does. Cuba has strong international public health ties and is believed to be setting up production for the vaccine abroad.
- gramie 5y agoI have never heard of this. The African National Congress (ANC), which fought against Apartheid for decades, had close ties with communist regimes in Angola and Mozambique. Those countries in turn had Cuban help in the fight against (South Africa-backed) right-wing rebels. The South African government at the time was rabidly anti-communist -- think Eugene McCarthy and the red scare in the U.S. -- so I doubt they would have much to do with Cuba.
- morelisp 5y agoThey helped South Africa, not the South African government, which was somewhat famously hostile to the majority of South Africans.
- baybal2 5y agoThey also attacked French, and South Africans in Angola, btw, fyi And then the apartheid croaked everywhere south of 17th parallel
- fernandezpablo 5y agoI'll add another trivia: they also throw you in jail if you speak badly of the current regime, which btw doesn't allow free elections.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoI think everyone already knows you go to jail in Cuba and most other authoritarian countries for speaking against the government.
- jonas_kgomo 5y agothis is what i am looking forward to, as an African what do you think we can do to accelerate vaccine access
- sudosysgen 5y agoAsk Cuba to help you set up a factory. The vaccine is not very complicated to produce from available information, and they seem willing to let other countries make it.
- ErneX 5y agoYou mean they force cubans to work abroad while the dictatorship charges dollars for it, that's some kind of modern slavery.
- jorda0mega 5y agoAs a cuban I can tell you Cuba definitely doesn't have the means of producing vaccines at scale. They barely have the capacity to keep hospitals clean and sterile. They do have, however, a great history of propaganda.
- sudosysgen 5y agoVietnam and probably a few other countries, that certainly have the capability, will help in production. Beyond that, this vaccine is insanely easier to produce than the mRNA vaccines.