How Cuba became a pioneer in covid-19 vaccines for kids
6/19/22
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from The Washington Post,
6/18/22:
Long before he was declared a U.S. national security threat, Vicente Vérez was a Cuban chemist who loved kids.
His specialty was vaccines. In the 1990s, he helped create an inexpensive vaccine targeting the bacteria known as haemophilus influenzae type b, or Hib, which had been killing children under 5. It was a global hit. So when covid-19 came along, Vérez knew what he had to do.
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