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Cuba credits two drugs with slashing coronavirus death toll
Communist-run Cuba said this week that use of two drugs produced by its biotech industry that reduce hyper-inflammation in seriously ill COVID-19 patients has sharply curbed its coronavirus-related death toll.
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MAY 22, 2020 / 6:07 PM / A DAY AGO
Cuba credits two drugs with slashing coronavirus death toll
Sarah Marsh
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Communist-run Cuba said this week that use of two drugs produced by its biotech industry that reduce hyper-inflammation in seriously ill COVID-19 patients has sharply curbed its coronavirus-related death toll.
FILE PHOTO: People line up to buy food amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in downtown Havana, Cuba, April 3, 2020. Picture taken April 3, 2020. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini
Health authorities have reported just two virus-related deaths over the past nine days among more than 200 active cases on the Caribbean’s largest island, a sign they may have the worst of the outbreak under control.
The government, which hopes to increase its biopharmaceutical exports, has touted various drugs it produces for helping prevent infection with the new coronavirus and treating the COVID-19 disease it causes.
It ascribes the recent reduction in deaths of severely ill COVID-19 patients largely to the use beginning in April of two drugs that appear to help calm the “cytokine storm,” a dangerous overresponse by the immune system in which it attacks healthy tissue as well as the invading virus.
One is itolizumab, a monoclonal antibody produced in Cuba and elsewhere. The other is a peptide that Cuba says its biotech industry discovered and has been testing for rheumatoid arthritis in Phase II clinical trials.
“Some 80 percent of patients who end up in critical condition are dying. In Cuba, with the use of these drugs, 80 percent of those who end up in critical or serious condition are being saved,” President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Thursday in a meeting shown on state television.
Scientists caution that large placebo-controlled studies are needed to assess the safety and efficacy of these drugs for treating COVID-19.
But Cuba’s experimental treatments have helped it achieve an overall COVID-19 death rate of 4.2%, compared with the regional and global averages of 5.9% and 6.6%, respectively, health authorities say.
Fatality rates depend on many variables, including the rate of testing, quality of healthcare systems, and age and underlying health condition of the population.
Official data suggests that Cuba, with universal healthcare and a well-staffed care system, has done well in containing its outbreak. It has registered less than 20 cases per day over the past week, down from a peak of 50 to 60 in mid-April. In total, Cuba has reported 1,916 cases for a population of 11 million and 81 death.
That translates to an infection rate 0.71 per 100,000 inhabitants, compared with about 29 per 100,000 for the United States, according to a John’s Hopkins University tally.
Swift action helped Cuba contain its outbreak. After closing borders, schools and public transportation in March, Cuba urged residents to stay home, made wearing of masks obligatory, and employed effective contact tracing to curb the virus spread.
No forbearance for renters and most got until the 5th and then management can stick the eviction notice on their door. Meanwhile, UE playing with folks.
Don’t start this with Congress you know who don’t want the second Stimulus and they want to hurry up and open up the country regardless what the virus does.....yeah the Republicans.That shit is going to get ugly.
Damn I feel for these people. Congress bullshitting with pissing contests and bloated bills when people need bread.
Do tell. How big would a bill have to be to get direct payments into the hands of Americans AND to extend $600? How many pages?
It's flu season in Brazil. That's one of my fears. That this thing will give a false sense of win to the U.S. since it's summer. Flu season hits us late October. These clowns will probably have schools open instead of using online learning.
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Listen the new bill that the Democrats Put together in the us house Is mostly geared towards people not corporations but this is why the Republicans in the Senate a slow walking this bill if it was for the corporations they would have passed a bill.
Man, it don't take 1800 pages to issue direct payments to the people. You see how they botched up last time without creditor protection? It would take a paragraph like they did for offsets.
Check how much the Americans got last time.
I think we are lucking up because of timing. About to be 80s here and the days are long in NE Ohio as we open up. What's it like in Canada? You guys locked down or opening up like us?
I may disagree with you on politics little bit sometimes but that is a good analogy right thereI think we are lucking up because of timing. About to be 80s here and the days are long in NE Ohio as we open up. What's it like in Canada? You guys locked down or opening up like us?
How the people been responding? In my neck of the woods, it was business as usual even during the lockdown. People really going to go hard now that it's warm.
Yeah man.
I feel like we are in the eye of the hurricane. Folks going to be beating their chests since death rates haven't spiked. Football going to start.
Then we get out the eye. By the time early November hits, shit might get ugly.
Because of some of the laws in this country you have to put down a lot of words you can’t just put two words on the paper and call it a bill come on now you should know betterMan, it don't take 1800 pages to issue direct payments to the people. You see how they botched up last time without creditor protection? It would take a paragraph like they did for offsets.
Out the 3 trillion, only 600 billion or so is directly to Americans.
They could have done a direct bill for the people and then come with their states/trickle down shit in the next version. But hey, if people who need the money put up with it, that's on them. Shit should be infuriating. Dems could have put the republicans on the spot with a direct bill. Instead, they give them outs.
