{"id":108339,"date":"2020-06-07T23:22:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T06:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/cuba-credits-two-drugs-with-slashing-coronavirus-death-toll"},"modified":"2020-06-07T23:22:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T06:22:38","slug":"cuba-credits-two-drugs-with-slashing-coronavirus-death-toll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/cuba-credits-two-drugs-with-slashing-coronavirus-death-toll","title":{"rendered":"Cuba credits two drugs with slashing coronavirus death toll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cuba-credits-two-drugs-with-slashing-coronavirus-death-toll.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HAVANA HAVANA (Reuters) \u2014 Communist-run Cuba said this week that use of two drugs produced by its biotech industry that reduce hyper-inflammation in seriously ill COVID-19 patients has sharply curbed its coronavirus-related death toll.<\/p>\n<p>Health authorities have reported just two virus-related deaths over the past nine days among more than 200 active cases on the Caribbean\u2019s largest island, a sign they may have the worst of the outbreak under control.<\/p>\n<p>The government, which hopes to increase its biopharmaceutical exports, has touted various drugs it produces for helping prevent infection with the new coronavirus and treating the COVID-19 disease it causes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAVANA HAVANA (Reuters) \u2014 Communist-run Cuba said this week that use of two drugs produced by its biotech industry that reduce hyper-inflammation in seriously ill COVID-19 patients has sharply curbed its coronavirus-related death toll. Health authorities have reported just two virus-related deaths over the past nine days among more than 200 active cases on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}