Medicine & Health
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The Nation magazine reports: As the novel coronavirus encircled the globe, tearing through health care systems, heavily affected countries sent out pleas for doctors. One small, downtrodden island answered the call--Cuba has sent more than 2,000 doctors and nurses to 23 countries since the crisis broke. No other country has sent large numbers of doctors abroad during the pandemic. Noam Chomsky, the radical intellectual, last month described the island as the only country to have shown “genuine internationalism” during the crisis, and the women-led anti-war organization Code Pink is now leading calls for the island’s emergency medical response teams to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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What Cuba Can Teach The US About The Pandemic on Rising Up with Sonali--Interview with Cuban Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) graduate, Abraham Vela, doctor on the frontlines here in LA fighting coronavirus. In our on-going series examining nations that have successfully tackled the coronavirus pandemic, we turn today to Cuba, a nation that has been hindered for decades by crippling US sanctions, and which nonetheless prides itself for a highly educated population and a large proportion of skilled doctors.
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