{"id":135089,"date":"2022-02-02T07:42:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T15:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/a-small-island-nation-has-cooked-up-not-1-not-2-but-5-covid-vaccines-its-cuba"},"modified":"2022-02-02T07:42:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T15:42:22","slug":"a-small-island-nation-has-cooked-up-not-1-not-2-but-5-covid-vaccines-its-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/a-small-island-nation-has-cooked-up-not-1-not-2-but-5-covid-vaccines-its-cuba","title":{"rendered":"A small island nation has cooked up not 1, not 2 but 5 COVID vaccines. It\u2019s Cuba!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-small-island-nation-has-cooked-up-not-1-not-2-but-5-covid-vaccines-its-cuba2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kamil MuzykaYes you are!<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas MacDonald \u201cNewton. Pfft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Omuterema Akhahenda shared a link.<\/p>\n<p>In the early days of the COVID pandemic, Cuba decided it was going to make its own vaccine \u2013 even though vaccine development historically takes years, even decades, to bear fruit.<\/p>\n<p>Why did the Communist island nation decide to go it alone?<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t want to rely on the whims of foreign governments or international pharmaceutical companies to immunize its people. Cuba didn\u2019t even sign up for the COVAX program, backed by the World Health Organization, that was promising to pur\u2026 See more.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/a-small-island-nation-has-cooked-up-not-1-not-2-but-5-covid-vaccines-its-cuba\">Continue reading \u201cA small island nation has cooked up not 1, not 2 but 5 COVID vaccines. It\u2019s Cuba!\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamil MuzykaYes you are! Nicholas MacDonald \u201cNewton. Pfft.\u201d Omuterema Akhahenda shared a link. In the early days of the COVID pandemic, Cuba decided it was going to make its own vaccine \u2013 even though vaccine development historically takes years, even decades, to bear fruit. Why did the Communist island nation decide to go it alone? [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135089","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=135089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}