{"id":133039,"date":"2021-12-25T02:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T10:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/cuba-soars-to-near-top-of-covid-vaccination-charts-on-decades-old-bet"},"modified":"2021-12-25T02:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T10:22:19","slug":"cuba-soars-to-near-top-of-covid-vaccination-charts-on-decades-old-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/cuba-soars-to-near-top-of-covid-vaccination-charts-on-decades-old-bet","title":{"rendered":"Cuba soars to near top of COVID vaccination charts on decades-old bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cuba-soars-to-near-top-of-covid-vaccination-charts-on-decades-old-bet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How is Cuba\u2019s one dose vaccine working \ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>HAVANA, Dec 20 (Reuters) \u2014 Cuba has vaccinated more of its citizens against COVID-19 than most of the world\u2019s largest and richest nations, a milestone that will make the poor, communist-run country a test case as the highly contagious Omicron variant begins to circle the globe.<\/p>\n<p>The Caribbean island has vaccinated over 90% of its population with at least one dose, and 83% of the population is now fully inoculated, placing it second globally behind only the United Arab Emirates among countries of at least 1 million people, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/graphics.reuters.com\/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps\/vaccination-rollout-and-access\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">official statistics<\/a> compiled by \u2018Our World in Data.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>What is Cuba\u2019s secret? While many of its neighbors in Latin America, as well as emerging economies globally, have competed for vaccines produced by wealthier nations, health officials say Cuba vaulted ahead by developing its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is Cuba\u2019s one dose vaccine working \ud83e\udd14 HAVANA, Dec 20 (Reuters) \u2014 Cuba has vaccinated more of its citizens against COVID-19 than most of the world\u2019s largest and richest nations, a milestone that will make the poor, communist-run country a test case as the highly contagious Omicron variant begins to circle the globe. 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":[11,39,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133039","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=133039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}