Light at the end of the tunnel?

[Brad the Impala]

Capitalism has mostly enabled the R&D and production capabilities to produce billions of vaccines. A wonderful economic system.

In comparison, not one communist country has produced a vaccine worth having.

Cuba! Even under an economic embargo from their capitalist neighbours.

The tiny Communist-run Caribbean island has achieved this milestone by producing its own Covid vaccine, even as it struggles to keep supermarket shelves stocked amid a decades-old U.S. trade embargo.

“It is an incredible feat,” Helen Yaffe, a Cuba expert and lecturer in economic and social history at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, told CNBC via telephone..

“Those of us who have studied biotech aren’t surprised in that sense, because it has not just come out of the blue. It is the product of a conscious government policy of state investment in the sector, in both public health and in medical science.”

To date, around 86% of the Cuban population has been fully vaccinated against Covid with three doses, and another 7% have been partly inoculated against the disease, according to official statistics compiled by Our World in Data.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/13/why-...bal-south.html