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Since last year, approximately 440 Cubans have died from COVID-19, giving Cuba one of the lowest death rates per capita in the world. Cuba is also developing five COVID-19 vaccines, including two which have entered stage 3 trials. Cuba has heavily invested in its medical and pharmaceutical system for decades, in part because of the six-decade U.S. embargo that has made it harder for Cuba to import equipment and raw materials from other countries. That investment, coupled with the country\u2019s free, universal healthcare system, has helped Cuba keep the virus under control and quickly develop vaccines against it, says Dr. Rolando P\u00e9rez Rodr\u00edguez, the director of science and innovation at BioCubaFarma, which oversees Cuba\u2019s medicine development. \u201cWe have long experience with these kinds of technologies,\u201d he says. We also speak with Reed Lindsay, journalist and founder of the independent, Cuba-focused media organization Belly of the Beast, who says U.S. sanctions on Cuba continue to cripple the country. \u201cCuba is going through an unbelievable economic crisis, and the sanctions have been absolutely devastating,\u201d says Lindsay.<\/p>\n

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