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Re:Cuba′s Covid vaccine rivals Pfizer, Moderna by sonograph on Sunday June 27, 2021 @03:03PM (#27654247)
> 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

Re:Cuba′s Covid vaccine rivals Pfizer, Moderna by disgruntledphd2 on Sunday June 27, 2021 @03:05PM (#27654264)
They'll probably be more likely to share enough technical know how that production elsewhere is possible.
Re:Cuba′s Covid vaccine rivals Pfizer, Moderna by alamortsubite on Sunday June 27, 2021 @03:06PM (#27654272)
I 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.
Re:Cuba′s Covid vaccine rivals Pfizer, Moderna by jonas_kgomo on Sunday June 27, 2021 @03:09PM (#27654305)
Cuba is also known to train African doctors and return them back to Africa. They also helped South Africa during the apartheid regime
Re:Cuba′s Covid vaccine rivals Pfizer, Moderna by gramie on Sunday June 27, 2021 @03:29PM (#27654494)
I 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.

Re:Cuba′s Covid vaccine rivals Pfizer, Moderna by morelisp on Sunday June 27, 2021 @03:35PM (#27654541)
They helped South Africa, not the South African government, which was somewhat famously hostile to the majority of South Africans.
Re:Cuba′s Covid vaccine rivals Pfizer, Moderna by baybal2 on Sunday June 27, 2021 @04:17PM (#27654899)
They also attacked French, and South Africans in Angola, btw, fyi

And then the apartheid croaked everywhere south of 17th parallel

Re:Cuba′s Covid vaccine rivals Pfizer, Moderna by kortilla on Sunday June 27, 2021 @03:21PM (#27654418)
That has no relation to vaccine production at all.
Re:Cuba′s Covid vaccine rivals Pfizer, Moderna by sudosysgen on Monday June 28, 2021 @02:30AM (#27658719)
It does. Cuba has strong international public health ties and is believed to be setting up production for the vaccine abroad.
Re:Cuba′s Covid vaccine rivals Pfizer, Moderna by LightG on Sunday June 27, 2021 @03:26PM (#27654463)
It relates in terms of Cuba's attitude to international aid and the possibility of doing something similar with the vaccines.
Re:Cuba′s Covid vaccine rivals Pfizer, Moderna by fernandezpablo on Sunday June 27, 2021 @04:44PM (#27655129)
I'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.
Re:Cuba′s Covid vaccine rivals Pfizer, Moderna by stjohnswarts on Monday June 28, 2021 @02:17AM (#27658672)
I think everyone already knows you go to jail in Cuba and most other authoritarian countries for speaking against the government.