{"id":6067,"date":"2022-03-28T10:36:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T10:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=6067"},"modified":"2022-03-28T10:36:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T10:36:46","slug":"top-cuban-vaccine-maker-how-we-took-on-covid-despite-u-s-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/top-cuban-vaccine-maker-how-we-took-on-covid-despite-u-s-siege\/","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\/top-cuban-vaccine-maker-how-we-took-on-covid-despite-u-s-siege\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-cuba"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6636,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/top-cuban-vaccine-maker-how-we-took-on-covid-despite-u-s-siege-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":6067,"position":0},"title":"Top Cuban Vaccine Maker: How We Took on COVID Despite U.S. Siege","author":"Editorial Team","date":"July 8, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pBHqe-9IEZY 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. 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