vaccines from abroad, cuba has produced its own homegrown anti-covid drugs. the island s government says studies show that they are safe, even in children, and have begun sending data to the world health organization for its approval. with the delta variant, cases in children are soaring in cuba. and just since august, ten children have died, according to government statistics. something doctors here tell us they didn t expect would happen. it s more gratifying to vaccinate a child, she says. you put the vaccine and know they re going to be immunized and won t have serious complications or even die from covid. the pandemic has hit cuba hard, with food and medicine shortages, and in-person schooling canceled indefinitely. cuban officials had said that they would reopen schools in early september, but with a surge of new cases and deaths, those plans are on hold. now officials say that before they can safely reopen schools,