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Cuba’s COVID-19 Vax Sought by CARICOM Countries, Venezuela to Make It (AP Photo/John Locher, File) Cuba is the only country in Latin America and the Caribbean developing COVID-19 vaccines. There has been an interest in these vaccines within the Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Now, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro says the country has signed a deal to produce two million doses per month of a Cuban coronavirus vaccine, adding that his government also managed to s...

Cuban scientists, health workers received first anti-Covid-19 dose Cuban scientists, health workers received first anti-Covid-19 dose Havana, Apr 11 (Prensa Latina) Scientists and health personnel from the Cuban capital who participate in the intervention study with two of this countrys anti-Covid-19 candidates are currently vaccinated with the first dose. The administration of the first dose of the Cuban vaccine candidates Soberana 02 and Abdala to the 75,000 health and Biocubafarma workers wh...

Last Updated: 2021-04-09 15:50 | CE.cn

Fairer, healthier world needs no vaccine nationalism World Health Day 2021 is being commemorated globally on Wednesday, under the theme of building a fairer, healthier world. In contrast to its previous themes, which typically focused on some specific types of disease or health threats like diabetes and food safety, this year the World Health Organization chose a more general and abstract theme for the yearly event. Its not that the WHO has run out of choices of disease types, or the wo...

Cuba has the highest rate of recovered Covid-19 patients in the Americas A health worker collects a sample for a COVID-19 test from a baby who arrived on a flight from Mexico at the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020. The airport received its first commercial flights in over 8 months, since the country locked down to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) (GRANMA)—With the highest rate of patients recovered from Covid-19 in ...

Apr 5, 2021 3:30pm Inscripta’s latest funding round will support the development and distribution of its Onyx benchtop platform, which uses CRISPR gene editing technology for fully automated genomic engineering. (AstraZeneca) Inscripta just got another step closer to achieving its mission of bringing CRISPR gene editing technology to the scientific masses. The genomic engineering company, a member of Fierce Medtech’s 2019 Fierce 15, recently closed a series E funding round totaling ...

Cubas work on Covid-19 vaccines underscored in Costa Rica Cubas work on Covid-19 vaccines underscored in Costa Rica San Jose, Apr 6 (Prensa Latina) The former rector of the National University (UNA) of Costa Rica, Alberto Salom, on Tuesday highlighted Cubas work on Covid-19 vaccines. In a lengthy article published on La Republica newspaper, Salom pointed out that Cuba is a poor country that goes ahead in its experiments, in which a key role is played by the Finlay Vaccines Institute (IFV) and t...

Cuba administers over 62,000 doses in intervention trials Cuba administers over 62,000 doses in intervention trials Havana, Apr 5 (Prensa Latina) Over 62,000 people belonging to the controlled intervention trials with Cubas vaccine candidates against Covid-19, Soberana 02 and Abdala, have received on Monday their first doses. The group of Cubas Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Industries informed so on social networks, and detailed that 61,512 volunteers from the capital received the initi...

Boston’s hospital chiefs moonlight on corporate boards at rates far beyond the national level Hospital chiefs and trustees defend this as boosting public-private partnerships, but critics say these board positions - some paying millions of dollars - raise troubling issues of conflict of interest and hospital priorities. By Liz Kowalczyk, Spotlight fellow Sarah L. Ryley, Mark Arsenault and Spotlight editor Patricia Wen Globe Staff and Globe Staff,Updated April 3, 2021, 4:54 p.m. Email to a...

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