{"id":736,"date":"2017-06-23T20:24:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T20:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cubasupport.com\/latest\/?page_id=736"},"modified":"2022-07-08T20:01:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T20:01:07","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Cuban Vaccine Maker: How We Took on COVID Despite U.S. Siege"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"747\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pBHqe-9IEZY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"viewer-85qd1\">BT\u2019s Rania Khalek was on the ground in Havana, Cuba, and spoke to Dr. Vicente V\u00e9rez Bencomo, General director of the Finlay vaccine institute in Havana, which developed Cuba\u2019s highly effective COVID-19 vaccine Soberana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"viewer-7rq5h\">They discussed how the U.S. blockade hampered the country\u2019s vaccine development, how Cuba managed to develop five covid vaccines while under siege, which countries helped, how Cuba became a world leader in biotechnology, and vaccine hesitancy in the West <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BT\u2019s Rania Khalek was on the ground in Havana, Cuba, and spoke to Dr. Vicente V\u00e9rez Bencomo, General director of the Finlay vaccine institute in<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6628,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"layouts\/magazine.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-736","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7102,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cubaporlavida-appeal-2022\/","url_meta":{"origin":736,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;CubaPorLaVida&#8221; appeal 2022","author":"Editorial Team","date":"August 9, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"As a consequence of the limitations imposed by Covid 19 and the prolonged blockade of the United States against Cuba, which has become even more intensified in these last three years, Cuba is going through a very complex situation, marked by the shortage of medical supplies in high demand in\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cuban-Hospital.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cuban-Hospital.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cuban-Hospital.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cuban-Hospital.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":35,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/links\/","url_meta":{"origin":736,"position":1},"title":"Links","author":"Editorial Team","date":"March 29, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Solidarity and Support groups Families for Justice - Campaign for the victims of Cubana Flight 455 Cuba Solidarity Campaign (Britain) Cuba against the blockade Pastors for Peace solidarity group (USA) Organic Support Group (Britain) Miami\/Cuban Five Support Site National Committee to Free the Miami Five Cuba Socialista CubaSolidarity.com, US Solidarity\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/volunteer-work-brigade\/","url_meta":{"origin":736,"position":2},"title":"Volunteer Work Brigade","author":"Editorial Team","date":"March 29, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"2014 Brigade to Cuba: April 27th to May 11th, 2014. 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