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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Cuban Scientists Pen Letter to Biden Rejecting ‘Failed State’ Claim<br></h1>August 10, 2021</div>
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<p>A broad representation of Cuban scientists will address a <a href="https://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?o=rn&id=468380&SEO=carta-al-presidente-biden-sobre-las-vacunas-de-cuba-contra-covid-19">letter</a>
to U.S. President Joe Biden evidencing Cuba’s scientific and political
capacity to face Covid-19, in an altruistic manner, despite the
limitations of the U.S. blockade.</p>
<p>The missive, to be written by top Cuban researchers, will constitute a
resounding response and rejection to Biden’s July 15th statements in
which he referred to Cuba as a ‘failed state’ and discredited its
competence as a country and discounted its health system.</p>
<p>Vice President of BioCubaFarma, Mayda Mauri Pérez, stated during a
Tuesday press conference that Biden’s claims reflect disinformation and
seek to distort Cuba’s reality but said there’s plenty of information
and data to disprove his absurd statements and demonstrate the island’s
major achievements.</p>
<p>The researchers’ response will highlight the innovative and
altruistic way in which the coronavirus has been fought, in spite of the
difficult conditions stemming from the economic, commercial and
financial blockade imposed by the U.S. government.</p>
<p>Mauri Pérez remarked that Cuba’s results against the virus are public
and are demonstrated in the country’s relatively low mortality rates
compared with other nations, even developed ones, including the United
States.</p>
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<blockquote><p dir="ltr" lang="es">Científicos cubanos rechazan las declaraciones del presidente Biden del pasado 15 de julio donde dijo que <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cuba?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cuba</a>
es un “estado fallido” y cuestiona la capacidad de la ciencia y el
sistema de salud cubanos para dar respuesta a los desafíos de la
pandemia. <a href="https://t.co/zSmxWNkxHC">pic.twitter.com/zSmxWNkxHC</a></p>— Cubadebate (@cubadebatecu) <a href="https://twitter.com/cubadebatecu/status/1425108463659757579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<p>Biden said that an international organization is needed to guarantee
Cubans’ access to vaccines, however, in reality, Cuba boasts one of the
highest anti-COVID-19 vaccination intensity rates in the world.</p>
<p>Dr. Agustín Lage Dávila, advisor to the President of BioCubaFarma and
former director of the Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM), explained
that vaccination coverage in Cuba for childhood prophylaxis is over 99%
and can be referenced in the UNICEF database. All Cubans are protected
by vaccines against 13 diseases, and eight of them are manufactured in
Cuba, he explained.</p>
<p>Dr. Lage Dávila said that while there hasn’t been a single case of
the measles in Cuba since 1993, the United States reported 1,292 cases
in 2019. Cuba not only eradicated Meningitis B through its own vaccine,
it’s also carried out international efforts to vaccinate people in other
countries, particularly in Africa where Cuba’s professionals worked at
the request of the World Health Organization.</p>
<p>The prestigious scientist also stressed that numerous studies have been published on Cuban biotechnology: “In 2009, <em>Nature </em>(scientific
journal) said that the Cuban biotechnology system was the best
biotechnology system in the world in developing countries. The question
we can ask ourselves at this point is whether a country with those
results needs someone’s intervention to introduce a vaccine against
COVID-19,” he said.</p>
<p>“The fact that we say that we do not need an intervention, in the
sense that the U.S. government is presenting, does not mean that we do
not want cooperation. We do want cooperation, in fact, we have sought
for decades and promoted cooperation with U.S. scientists, and a
reliable example of this is the existing exchange in the development of
the therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer,” he concluded.</p>
<p>The letter is expected to become available in the coming days, in
electronic format, so that it can be signed by researchers worldwide who
support Cuba’s scientific drive.</p>
<p>Authorization for emergency use of Soberana 02 is in process and
Soberana Plus is expected to be granted emergency use authorization in
September. Pediatrics trials are going well with aspirations to begin
vaccination of children in September and Cuba remains committed to
immunizing 100 percent of its population this year. BioCubaFarma
production companies have already delivered around 13 million doses of
vaccines to the Ministry of Public Health. Dr. Mauri Pérez said that
surplus vaccines will be available for export only once the entire Cuban
population is immunized.</p>
<p><em>With information from <a href="http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2021/08/10/cientificos-cubanos-rechazan-declaraciones-de-biden-un-pais-que-salva-con-su-ciencia-no-es-un-estado-fallido/">Cubadebate </a>and Agencia Cubana de Noticias</em></p>
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