In a recent visit to Cuba, Swiss physician and Professor Franco Cavalli, of the MediCubaEuropa NGO, documented the island’s extraordinary success in combatting the coronavirus—despite a COVID-triggered economic crisis, a decades-long U.S. economic blockade and more recent sanctions imposed by madman Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Pompeo, in fact, has publicly declared he intends to completely destroy Cuba’s economy.
As reported by Argentina’s Paco Urondo press agency Dec. 1, Dr. Cavalli, former head of the International Coalition Against Cancer, pointed out that Cuba has used its unique biomedical capabilities to do what “advanced” sector countries have failed to do. Over the past ten months, this country of 12 million people has had 8,233 confirmed COVID cases and only 134 deaths, using its excellent free, community-based public health system and extensive testing to keep the virus at bay. Thanks to decades of investment in biomedical research, today the city of Havana has 32 biomedical research and development centers and specialized medical institutes which make up its BioCubaFarma scientific pole—with three Chinese affiliates— employing 20,000 people. Also over decades, Cuban doctors have deployed abroad to developing nations to use their scientific expertise to treat Ebola, cholera, HIV-AIDS and other infectious diseases—most recently including COVID—in Africa, Latin America and Asia—with excellent results. Pompeo has also viciously attacked the Cuban doctors’ lifesaving deployments.
