• HurlingDurling@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    So the CDC chooses the year where when we where still dying from covid because an orange idiot and his group of red hat morons to set the average? No shit it will go down.

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          1 year ago

          Truth: I clicked that expecting to read about a Cuban vaccine for liberalism (mostly wondering how that worked)

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          I really admire what Cuba has done in the last half century. They’re a fairly resource poor island nation who were cut off suddenly from the trading partner who accounted for 85% of their trade. While they’re constantly struggling financially, they have a huge rate of tertiary education, better female participation in the professional workforce than almost all nations, a decent happiness score and a now a better life expectancy than the richest nation in the world.

          However, the creation of COVID vaccines was not difficult. COVID is not that dissimilar to a number of existing viruses which we already have vaccines for. The production of a simple vaccine is easy, but rounds of testing and approval take a long time. This is how come Cuba could create vaccines based on existing techniques with slight tweeks.

          • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            However, the creation of COVID vaccines was not difficult.

            Looking at the shitfest around the vaccines in the west i would say otherwise, including how they refuse to release the patents.

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              The ones you had to wait for in the west were mRNA vaccines. They are newer, more complicated, and in theory customisable to a wider range of infections. While I’d love to see these opened up and used for their full potential I can see why the pharma corps don’t want that.

              While I haven’t looked, I’ll bet that the Cuban ones were"simply" using a deactivated virus - which is less effective and especially less effective against mutated strains.

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        1 year ago

        But they didn’t have people preferring to take horse dewormer, saying it didn’t exist, or trying to drink bleach instead of taking the vaccine.

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          1 year ago

          You may have just hit on part of the reason why Americans can now expect to live three years less than Cubans.

    • eatmyass [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      It was a global pandemic. So Cubans were also dealing with Covid.

      Also in 2021 Biden was president. And they say life expectancy went down from 2020, the year trump was president