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Cuba facing worst health crisis of the pandemic 3 minutes read
By Atahualpa Amerise
Havana, Jul 7 (EFE).- While a large portion of the world is recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic, Cuba is suffering its worst outbreak with new infection records being set almost daily and the healthcare system on the verge of collapse in the province of Matanzas, where patients are piling up in the halls of hospitals and there is a scarcity of medications to treat them.
The Covid-19 infection rate in Cuba over the past two weeks has been 381 cases for every 100,000 residents but in Matanzas province, east of Havana, the figure stands at 1,316, higher than in Madrid, Spain, at the worst point in the crisis.
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A Big Hit, A Big Miss, & Mixed Vaccine Schedules: The 18-Month Mark
Remember when we were told the earliest we could possibly hope for a vaccine was 12 to 18 months? Here we are, coming up on
18 months after the sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 genome: people are calling vaccines with delivering results now “late”! And 15 vaccines have at least interim phase 3 results.
While this was all going on, a group of documentary-makers were interviewing people in real time to tell the story as history unfolded. The results is called
The Vaccine, and I hear
it’s fantastic – try to catch it if it’s broadcast in your country. (Disclosure: I was one of the people offering advice behind the scenes.)
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