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Lets all have a sign of relief that all the Chavista leading the government of Venezuela are fully vaccinated by now. For Maduro et al, those are the only people that truly matter.
In some ways it reminds me of North Korea when the government ran a campaign telling the people to literally eat grass to avoid starvation. Something tells me that leading folks in the North Korea government continue to eat fillet mignon, salmon, and other delicious stuff the everyday North Koreans didn't have.
See after 5:56 on this report from 2017. Crazy, you can't make this stuff up. I'm a billion times grateful I wasn't born in North Korea during these times. Maybe in the future North Korea will be a great place, but for now thanks but no thanks.
Why is Uruguay so high and why isn't enlightened Costa Rica even lower than Brazil?
It is not the case that Costa rican or Latin Americans populations do not want to be vaccinated, it is a lack of vaccines.
Uruguay and Chile ordered enough doses in advance for the entire population directly from the laboratories. On the other hand most third world countries have trusted orders only through WHO which are long delayed.
Brazil, although hindered by the current president, has local production capacity.
It is not the case that Costa rican or Latin Americans populations do not want to be vaccinated, it is a lack of vaccines.
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Exactly. In reality it is the same problem world over.
For countries that have the resources, this pandemic should be a lesson to improve/inrease our capabilities in manufacturing vaccines and be able to pump them out faster. Hopefully this will never happen again but we need to be ready.
The good news about the new Cuban vaccine is that price gouging (yes, that's what I call it) regarding top Covid vaccines most likely will not take place. I really hope they are generous with Haiti and just give millions of vaccines (with no political proganda, the temptation must be high, lol.) Cuba is close by (from my understanding, the mountains of the Sierra Maestra in eastern Cuba can be seen in the horizon on a clear day from the Saint Nicholas point in northwestern Haiti). It's a case of getting production high in Cuba and ship the vaccines SAP. Haiti is also not a big country (10 to 11 million people in an area roughly the size of Maryland, crammed into less than that considering more than 80% is mountainous and a very high percentage of those are some of the ruggest mountain chains in the Caribbean.)
Jamaica too, another neighbor of Cuba, could use some free vaccines too to get those vaccinated numbers skyrocketing. That's a smaller country with 3 million folks and that may be too much. Basically and for comparison, Jamaica's population more or less fits in Port-au-Prince. Heck, even Havana is comparable in population size.
The biotech industry is one of the few things I see with good eyes about Cuba, created under Fidel Castro's dictatorship. I hope once democracy and capitalism returns, Cuba's biotech industry will get larger and better.
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