Watch Cuba legit have the cure for the common cold.
its really sad to hear about how hard the US tries to hurt cuba in every possible way.
Makes it funnier when we get dunked on and made to look like a bitch country by the little island though.
They really didn't pass up the opportunity to trash on Cuba like six times out of context. They were more charitable towards the Saudis when they hacksawed that guy
Didn't Khashoggi work for the Washington Post? And they made a big deal about it for like a week, and then they went back to reporting on Trumps farts or w/e.
I remember when that happened there was quite a fuss. You could really get a sense everyone was furious with the Saudis for not doing it in a way that allowed plausible deniability
Cuba has suggested it will provide its vaccines free or at cost to poorer nations.
If this doesn't convince you it's a terrible, authoritarian state with no respect for human life, then I don't know what will.
Genuinely inspiring to look out from the hell empire and see true compassion just outside
Sort of, I'd hesitate to use the term vaccine, though it functions a bit like an active vaccine. Remember cancer isn't one disease, every individual person with cancer basically has their own unique version of cancer, though the pathology generally falls along "only" a few thousand discrete pathways.
Basically many non-small-cell lung cancers (and some similar cancers in other organs) overexpress Epidermal Growth Factor Receptors (EGF is a factor in saliva and other mucosal areas that aids healing of wounds and ulcers) in order to grow rapidly. The vaccine trains the immune system to attack its own EGF (this is not a great thing but is a hell of a lot better than lung cancer) which starves the EGFR on cancer cells of it and prevents them from proliferating.
So it doesn't "cure" cancer, only works on maybe 65-80% of cancers of the lung (so the majority of ones it targets), doesn't kill it, just stops it, is way more effective on early stage cancers and neoplasms, and while it works as a preventative I'd personally hold off on the getting stomach ulcers.
It's still one of the most amazing cancer breakthroughs of all time.
Cuba is an authoritarian, one-party state with strict curbs on free speech, political activism and economic freedoms. But investments in education and health care planted the seed of what is today an unusually sophisticated biotechnology apparatus for a small developing country, with at least 31 research companies and 62 factories with over 20,000 workers.
Wait so a country that's been under a crushing embargo for decades was still able to build a competitive biotech industry? I thought only free markets create innovation.
