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Cuban Medicine

Cuba closes Saturday with 482 new Covid-19 infections and one deceased

06 March 2022
Translated by Walter Lippmann for CubaNews.

At the close of yesterday, March 5, 7,238 patients were hospitalized, 4,830 suspected, 43 under surveillance, and 2,365 confirmed active.

For COVID-19, a total of 11,239 samples were taken for surveillance on the day, with 482 being positive for 4.3% positivity. The country accumulates 13 million 155 thousand 339 samples carried out and 1 million 072 thousand 956 positives.

Of the total cases (482): 474 were contacts of confirmed cases, 2 with a source of infection abroad and 6 without a specified source of infection. Of the 482 diagnosed cases, 294 were female and 188 male.

5.6% (27) of the 482 positive cases were asymptomatic, accumulating a total of 145,264, which represents 13.5% of those confirmed to date.

Of the 482 diagnosed cases, they belong to the age groups: under 20 years old (112), 20 to 39 years old (142), 40 to 59 years old (126), 60 and over (102).

Cuba COVID-19

A Dialogue on Cuba’s Heroic Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic

Hosted by Saving Lives Campaign

A Dialogue on Cuba’s Heroic Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic

Welcome
– Sean O’Donoghue – Table de Concertation et de Solidarité Québec-Cuba

Speakers
– Dr. Agustin Lage – Founder and longtime director of the Cuban Center of Molecular Immunology (CIM). A member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences and the US National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Lage led the CIM into becoming one of the world’s top Institutes for biotech and medical research. He completed his post-graduate work at the renowned Pasteur Institute in Paris, France. Doctor in Medicine, Ph.D. in Medical Sciences, Full Researcher, Coordinator of the Technical Council for Biotechnology Projects in Cuba.

– Dr. Samira Addrey –  2020 graduate of the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Cuba. She was born and raised in Accra, Ghana before migrating to the United States at the age of nine with her family. She is currently the Coordinator of the ELAM program for IFCO/Pastors for Peace

– Professor Pedro Más Bermejo MD, PhD, DrSc – Leader of Cuba’s COVID-19 National Technical Group, Physician with more than 25 years’ experience in the disciplines of hygiene, epidemiology, microbiology and nutrition.. National Director of Epidemiology, Ministry of Public Health, Emeritus Research Scientist, Tropical Medicine Institute “Pedro Kourí”, Emeritus member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences.

Moderators
– Dr. Leni Villagomez Reeves – former United Farm Workers volunteer who attended UC Berkeley and UCSF. She worked at Valley Childrens Hospital for many years doing pediatric emergency medicine. Dr. Villagomez Reeves is active in the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, where she co-chairs its national Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Committee, and with the Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba and the Saving Lives Campaign.

– Alison Bodine – Social justice activist, writer and researcher in Vancouver, Canada who has been working in solidarity with Venezuela and Cuba for over 15 years. Alison has traveled to Cuba over a dozen times since 2006. She is coordinator of the Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice Venezuela Solidarity Campaign and on the editorial board of the Fire This Time Newspaper. She is author of the book “Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Venezuela” (Battle of Ideas Press, 2018)..

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JOIN OUR CAMPAIGN TO SPUR CUBA’S FIGHT AGAINST COVID!

The Saving Lives Campaign and Global Health Partners are building a broad-based, urgent drive to supply these vital medical tools to Cuba. The country has a shortage of 20 million syringes vital to the goal of vaccinating the entire Cuban population against Covid. We are committed to raising $100,000 this month to start rushing syringes to Cuba.  

Please show your solidarity now with a country that has done so much for the health of its own people, and for struggling communities around the world.

Over the past year alone, Cuba has sent 3,700 health workers, in 52 international medical brigades, to 39 countries overwhelmed by the pandemic. Cuba’s international medical brigades have treated patients and saved lives for the past 15 years in 53 countries confronting natural disasters and serious epidemics, such as the Ebola crisis in West Africa.

Cuba has developed five internationally recognized candidate COVID-19 vaccines, with two in Phase III clinical trials as of April 2021. Cuba has 11.3 million people, but plans to produce 100 million doses of vaccine, to meet its commitment to sharing its low-cost vaccines with poor countries in the developing world.

Help put life saving vaccines into Cuban arms with your generous, tax-deductible donation to our syringe campaign. Your gift today will save lives and show your solidarity with Cuba’s commitment to helping other poor countries fight Covid.

Please send your gift to Global Health Partners, which has a U.S. Commerce Department license to send medical supplies to Cuba. You can make an immediate donation online on this page.

You can also send checks payable to Global Health Partners, with the memo Syringe Campaign, at 39 Broadway, Suite 1540, New York, NY 10006.

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