Havana, Cuba: While the truths exposed by Cuban scientists in a letter to President Joe Biden gain credibility today with the systematic increase in signatures, a report reveals the fallacies of the United States in the face of the pandemic, Prensa Latina publishes.
The US president’s accusations of qualifying Cuba as a “failed state” on July 15 and questioning its health system collide with the arguments put forward by the Caribbean experts.
The signatories of the document – in a few days it already has the support of 5,593 (last night) people in the world – expose that Biden’s statement “does not reflect the Cuban reality” and lament that the misinformation by “malicious actors” influence their political decisions.
In the text, Cuban scientists mention milestones of the island’s Public Health promoted since the first years of the Revolution such as the National Immunization Program that covers the entire country, and which Cuba today boasts with unique vaccines in the world achieved by national science.
“Immunization is part of the universal public health system of our country, free for all Cubans regardless of their socioeconomic, political, religion, sex or race,” the specialists emphasize.
Among the examples, the letter refers to the development in 1989 of the world’s first effective vaccine against meningitis B, a disease that kills 300,000 people globally each year and leaves sequelae to one in five affected, according to the World Organization of Health (WHO).
Although defeating meningitis is one of the WHO’s goals for 2030, on the island that disease has not been a health problem for quite some time.
The document also alludes to the fact that since 1999 all Cubans have been protected ‘against 13 life-threatening diseases’, including diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, of which eight vaccines are manufactured in Cuba, while childhood vaccination rates exceed the 99 percent.
Experts, faced with the threats shared by the deadly disease, propose to Biden greater cooperation than confrontation and affirm that if the US government really wants to “help Cubans,” it will reverse the 243 punitive measures approved by Donald Trump.
After the president’s tirades against Havana, the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies of the Renmin University of China (RDCY), together with their counterparts Taihe and Intellisia, published a report on the situation in the northern country on August 9.
Entitled ‘America Number One? The truth about the United States ‘response against COVID-19’, the investigation addresses five aspects associated with Washington’s response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, which causes Covid-19.
They are the competition between games, not for life; anti-scientific and anti-common sense measures; system failures make the pandemic difficult to control; the pandemic exacerbated the social gap and the willful destruction of global resistance to the pandemic.
The study of the three centers of Chinese thought shows that the American failure to confront the pandemic stems from the lucrative nature of capitalism, recognizing that it acts in the interest of capital and in favor of the ‘strongest’ in the face of the current health crisis.
In that sense, he points out that between March 2020 and January 2021, the combined wealth of more than 600 American billionaires increased by 38.65 percent, from two thousand 947 million dollars to four thousand 85 million, while the gap between rich and poor the difference increased even more.
Regarding the vaccination rates against Covid-19, RDCY and its peers state that in the United States until last March, in 38 states of the Union and the District of Columbia, three white people were inoculated for every two African-Americans and one Hispanic.
A study last year by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that as a consequence of the pandemic and the economic contraction 10.7 percent of Americans considered suicide as an option, 40.9 percent said they had problems mental health and 13.3 percent said they start or increase drug use.
Perhaps what was said by the executive dean of the RDCY, Wang Wen, summarizes the investigation by stating that placing the United States as the first country to handle the pandemic is a disregard for history and even human ethics.
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