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Capital of Biggest US State Seeks Medical Exchange with Cuba
Published 11 November 2020
The Mayor and City Council of Sacramento, California passed a resolution Tuesday night urging the U.S. President and Congress to lift restrictions on access to Cuban medical expertise.
The capital city of the most populous state in the United States—Sacramento, California—unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday evening calling for increased cooperation and exchange between the people of the United States and Cuba.
The northern Californian city of more than half a million people joins over a dozen U.S. cities—including Oakland, California; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Cleveland, Ohio and others—in urging state and national leadership to lift restrictons on access to Cuban medical expertise and imports of Cuban biotechnological products, among other demands.
The resolution recognizes not only that the United States, particularly Black and Latinx communities, is suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic, but that Cuba "has a long history of providing international medical aid with its medical personnel directly involved in the fight against COVID-19" through its Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade against Disasters and Serious Epidemics.
Citing Cuba's proven track record in its fight against the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, as well as its assistance in many worldwide epidemics including dengue fever, HIV, swine flu and hepatitis, the resolution notes that Cuba's medical system has been recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2005 as a worldwide leader in biotechnology, having made "significant contributions to the international medical field."
Despite Cuba's medical achievments, the resolution states that "the U.S. blockade of Cuba has severely restricted collaboration on scientific and medical research" and that the people of Sacramento "would benefit from Cuban biotechnological, medical and public health expertise in combating the COVID-19 pandemic."
In concluding, the Mayor and City Council of Sacramento urge the United States' legislative and executive branches to "lift restrictions on access to Cuban medical expertise to more effectively combat the COVID-19 pandemic by suspending travel sanctions against Cuba; cease ongoing measures deterring Cuba from importing medical equipment and medicines; and cease attempts to prevent other countries from accepting Cuban medical brigades and assistance."
With Tuesday's resolution, Sacramento becomes the seventh U.S. city to adopt a resolution specifically calling for U.S.-Cuba medical and scientific collaboration in 2020 alone. The California cities of Richmond, Berkeley, San Francisco and Oakland—along with Cleveland, Ohio and Cambridge, Massachusetts—have all passed similar resolutions this year.
Recently, the Cuban monoclonal antibody Itolizumab, developed by the Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM) in collaboration with the Indian company Bicon, received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorization to start phase III clinical trials in patients with COVID-19 in the United States, Mexico and Brazil.
U.S. support for medical, scientific and clinical collboration and exchange with Cuba has been growing, as over 200 university professors in the United States released a statement yesterday calling on the Nobel Prize Committee to award the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to Cuba's Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade, which has to date sent more than 3,700 Cuban nurses and doctors organized in more than 50 medical teams to 39 countries throughout the world to treat people with COVID-19 and prevent further contagion.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Cap ... -0020.html
Goddamn commies...this gotta drive the Right nuts, I should be surprised if they don't make hay outta this. And expect Joe Biden to throw shade.
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Oakland, California Calls For Medical Collaboration with Cuba
Published 21 October 2020
The City Council of the U.S. city of Oakland, California, approved a new resolution Tuesday condemning the economic, commercial, and financial blockade that the U.S. has been imposing on Cuba for almost six decades.
José Ramón Cabañas, Cuban Ambassador to the United States, announced the news today on Twitter, highlighting that the resolution calls for bilateral cooperation to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the tweet, Cabañas asks if federal politicians will listen to the city's request to lift the siege against Cuba, sharing the link to Resolution 20-0712 as well as supplementary documents.
"U.S. City Council of Oakland, California approves a new resolution against the Blockade on Cuba and calls for bilateral cooperation to combat COVID-19. Will federal politicians will listen to these demands?" says the diplomat's message.
With Tuesday's resolution, Oakland becomes the sixth U.S. city to adopt a resolution supporting U.S.-Cuba medical and scientific collaboration in 2020 alone. The California cities of Richmond, Berkeley, and San Francisco, as well as Cleveland, Ohio and Cambridge, Massachusetts, have all passed similar resolutions this year.
Introduced by Councilman Dan Kalb, the resolution recognizes the capacity of the Cuban public health system and its successes in controlling COVID-19, stating that the City Council will explore possibilities for cooperation with Cuba to jointly fight the pandemic.
To this end, it includes the possibility of removing restrictions that prevent the start of clinical trials of the Cuban drug Interferon Alpha 2B in the United States, as well as the elimination of economic and travel sanctions against Cuba.
Approved unanimously with a favorable vote from all eight members of the City Council, the resolution is the second one related to Cuba to be approved in Oakland since 2016 and becomes the 23rd one approved in all of the United States, a clear sign of the support from the American people to improve relations with Cuba.
Oakland resident and co-chair of the National Network on Cuba Alicia Jrapko said of the resolution: “We could learn a lot from the accomplishments of Cuba’s approach to the Covid 19 virus both in their country and around the world. Cuba has a lower infection rate than most countries in the northern hemisphere and Cubans are 42 times less likely to contract the virus than people in the U.S. In collaborating with Cuba we will show people in this country the humanistic approach Cuba has to fight the pandemic.”
Helene Maxwell, another Oakland resident in favor of the resolution, said: “Especially in this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is unconscionable, that because of the U.S. blockade of Cuba, patients in the U.S. are denied access to medicines that are available in every other country. Oakland’s approval of this resolution for medical and scientific collaboration between the City of Oakland and Cuba is a first step in ending this madness.”
This Thursday October 22, Cuba will present a report titled, "The need to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba," which is submitted annually for the consideration of the United Nations' member states and whose vote this year at the UN will be postponed until May 2021 due to COVID-19 pandemic.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Oak ... -0017.html
I had missed this earlier. Good for them, go for the best, I sure as hell will not trust US Pharma until several million have tried their products and not grown another head. And have all them Trotskyists not raised a ruckus yet about 'Cuban imperialism'?
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Cambridge, Massachusetts Seeks Medical Cooperation With Cuba
The Cambridge City Council passed a resolution Monday promoting medical and scientific collaboration with Cuba on COVID-19, urging Congress to remove restrictions on collaboration by suspending economic and travel restriction on Cuba. | Photo: Twitter/@PLprensalatina
Published 6 October 2020
The U.S. city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, approved a policy order Monday night to explore medical exchange and collaboration with Cuba to jointly confront the COVID-19 pandemic that has impacted the entire world.
The document, approved unanimously by the Cambridge City Council on Monday, also calls on the U.S. government to lift all economic sanctions and travel restrictions imposed by the U.S. government on the Caribbean country.
The order, sponsored by Councilmembers Dennis Carlone, Marc McGovern and Quinton Zondervan, as well as Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui, highlights that the city of Cambridge is home to some of the most prestigious institutions in the United States, and highlights Cuba's development of an internationally respected biopharmaceutical industry.
The island, the document adds, uses several successful treatment protocols to control COVID-19, among them medicines produced in Cuba such as Biomodulin T and Interferon Alpha 2B human recombinant, "which has given that country an extremely favorable mortality and recovery rate." The text regrets that none of these drugs are available in the United States due to the continuous and growing restrictions on collaboration with and imports from the Caribbean nation.
The city of Cambridge and its institutions, including Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cambridge Hospital, have a long history of direct medical and scientific exchanges of professors and students, as well as direct collaboration with Cuba, the policy order points out.
In addition, it highlights that there are other efforts in the United States that seek medical collaboration with the Antillean nation, as shown by resolutions recently passed in Cleveland, Ohio, and in Richmond and San Francisco, California, which also demand the lifting of the nearly 60-year-old blockade against the island.
The people of Cambridge, the rest of the country and the world would benefit from biopharmaceutical, medical and public health collaboration and exchange between the United States and Cuba, the document states.
For this reason, it orders the city to actively explore collaboration to jointly face the current pandemic, which would include restarting the transfer of knowledge on public health prevention methods, ways to prevent infection of health personnel, and development of new treatments, vaccines and protocols.
It also states that the Council should actively encourage the Massachusetts State Legislature and Governor Charlie Baker to pursue such exchanges, knowledge transfers and collaboration.
Similarly, the city calls on Congress and the President of the United States to lift restrictions on access to Cuba's medical services and biopharmaceutical expertise by suspending all economic and travel sanctions against the island.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Cam ... 6W_swbfVvk
More old news, funny how all this slips under the MSM radar.....
Capital of Biggest US State Seeks Medical Exchange with Cuba
Published 11 November 2020
The Mayor and City Council of Sacramento, California passed a resolution Tuesday night urging the U.S. President and Congress to lift restrictions on access to Cuban medical expertise.
The capital city of the most populous state in the United States—Sacramento, California—unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday evening calling for increased cooperation and exchange between the people of the United States and Cuba.
The northern Californian city of more than half a million people joins over a dozen U.S. cities—including Oakland, California; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Cleveland, Ohio and others—in urging state and national leadership to lift restrictons on access to Cuban medical expertise and imports of Cuban biotechnological products, among other demands.
The resolution recognizes not only that the United States, particularly Black and Latinx communities, is suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic, but that Cuba "has a long history of providing international medical aid with its medical personnel directly involved in the fight against COVID-19" through its Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade against Disasters and Serious Epidemics.
Citing Cuba's proven track record in its fight against the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, as well as its assistance in many worldwide epidemics including dengue fever, HIV, swine flu and hepatitis, the resolution notes that Cuba's medical system has been recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2005 as a worldwide leader in biotechnology, having made "significant contributions to the international medical field."
Despite Cuba's medical achievments, the resolution states that "the U.S. blockade of Cuba has severely restricted collaboration on scientific and medical research" and that the people of Sacramento "would benefit from Cuban biotechnological, medical and public health expertise in combating the COVID-19 pandemic."
In concluding, the Mayor and City Council of Sacramento urge the United States' legislative and executive branches to "lift restrictions on access to Cuban medical expertise to more effectively combat the COVID-19 pandemic by suspending travel sanctions against Cuba; cease ongoing measures deterring Cuba from importing medical equipment and medicines; and cease attempts to prevent other countries from accepting Cuban medical brigades and assistance."
With Tuesday's resolution, Sacramento becomes the seventh U.S. city to adopt a resolution specifically calling for U.S.-Cuba medical and scientific collaboration in 2020 alone. The California cities of Richmond, Berkeley, San Francisco and Oakland—along with Cleveland, Ohio and Cambridge, Massachusetts—have all passed similar resolutions this year.
Recently, the Cuban monoclonal antibody Itolizumab, developed by the Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM) in collaboration with the Indian company Bicon, received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorization to start phase III clinical trials in patients with COVID-19 in the United States, Mexico and Brazil.
U.S. support for medical, scientific and clinical collboration and exchange with Cuba has been growing, as over 200 university professors in the United States released a statement yesterday calling on the Nobel Prize Committee to award the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to Cuba's Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade, which has to date sent more than 3,700 Cuban nurses and doctors organized in more than 50 medical teams to 39 countries throughout the world to treat people with COVID-19 and prevent further contagion.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Cap ... -0020.html
Goddamn commies...this gotta drive the Right nuts, I should be surprised if they don't make hay outta this. And expect Joe Biden to throw shade.
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Oakland, California Calls For Medical Collaboration with Cuba
Published 21 October 2020
The City Council of the U.S. city of Oakland, California, approved a new resolution Tuesday condemning the economic, commercial, and financial blockade that the U.S. has been imposing on Cuba for almost six decades.
José Ramón Cabañas, Cuban Ambassador to the United States, announced the news today on Twitter, highlighting that the resolution calls for bilateral cooperation to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the tweet, Cabañas asks if federal politicians will listen to the city's request to lift the siege against Cuba, sharing the link to Resolution 20-0712 as well as supplementary documents.
"U.S. City Council of Oakland, California approves a new resolution against the Blockade on Cuba and calls for bilateral cooperation to combat COVID-19. Will federal politicians will listen to these demands?" says the diplomat's message.
With Tuesday's resolution, Oakland becomes the sixth U.S. city to adopt a resolution supporting U.S.-Cuba medical and scientific collaboration in 2020 alone. The California cities of Richmond, Berkeley, and San Francisco, as well as Cleveland, Ohio and Cambridge, Massachusetts, have all passed similar resolutions this year.
Introduced by Councilman Dan Kalb, the resolution recognizes the capacity of the Cuban public health system and its successes in controlling COVID-19, stating that the City Council will explore possibilities for cooperation with Cuba to jointly fight the pandemic.
To this end, it includes the possibility of removing restrictions that prevent the start of clinical trials of the Cuban drug Interferon Alpha 2B in the United States, as well as the elimination of economic and travel sanctions against Cuba.
Approved unanimously with a favorable vote from all eight members of the City Council, the resolution is the second one related to Cuba to be approved in Oakland since 2016 and becomes the 23rd one approved in all of the United States, a clear sign of the support from the American people to improve relations with Cuba.
Oakland resident and co-chair of the National Network on Cuba Alicia Jrapko said of the resolution: “We could learn a lot from the accomplishments of Cuba’s approach to the Covid 19 virus both in their country and around the world. Cuba has a lower infection rate than most countries in the northern hemisphere and Cubans are 42 times less likely to contract the virus than people in the U.S. In collaborating with Cuba we will show people in this country the humanistic approach Cuba has to fight the pandemic.”
Helene Maxwell, another Oakland resident in favor of the resolution, said: “Especially in this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is unconscionable, that because of the U.S. blockade of Cuba, patients in the U.S. are denied access to medicines that are available in every other country. Oakland’s approval of this resolution for medical and scientific collaboration between the City of Oakland and Cuba is a first step in ending this madness.”
This Thursday October 22, Cuba will present a report titled, "The need to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba," which is submitted annually for the consideration of the United Nations' member states and whose vote this year at the UN will be postponed until May 2021 due to COVID-19 pandemic.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Oak ... -0017.html
I had missed this earlier. Good for them, go for the best, I sure as hell will not trust US Pharma until several million have tried their products and not grown another head. And have all them Trotskyists not raised a ruckus yet about 'Cuban imperialism'?
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Cambridge, Massachusetts Seeks Medical Cooperation With Cuba
The Cambridge City Council passed a resolution Monday promoting medical and scientific collaboration with Cuba on COVID-19, urging Congress to remove restrictions on collaboration by suspending economic and travel restriction on Cuba. | Photo: Twitter/@PLprensalatina
Published 6 October 2020
The U.S. city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, approved a policy order Monday night to explore medical exchange and collaboration with Cuba to jointly confront the COVID-19 pandemic that has impacted the entire world.
The document, approved unanimously by the Cambridge City Council on Monday, also calls on the U.S. government to lift all economic sanctions and travel restrictions imposed by the U.S. government on the Caribbean country.
The order, sponsored by Councilmembers Dennis Carlone, Marc McGovern and Quinton Zondervan, as well as Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui, highlights that the city of Cambridge is home to some of the most prestigious institutions in the United States, and highlights Cuba's development of an internationally respected biopharmaceutical industry.
The island, the document adds, uses several successful treatment protocols to control COVID-19, among them medicines produced in Cuba such as Biomodulin T and Interferon Alpha 2B human recombinant, "which has given that country an extremely favorable mortality and recovery rate." The text regrets that none of these drugs are available in the United States due to the continuous and growing restrictions on collaboration with and imports from the Caribbean nation.
The city of Cambridge and its institutions, including Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cambridge Hospital, have a long history of direct medical and scientific exchanges of professors and students, as well as direct collaboration with Cuba, the policy order points out.
In addition, it highlights that there are other efforts in the United States that seek medical collaboration with the Antillean nation, as shown by resolutions recently passed in Cleveland, Ohio, and in Richmond and San Francisco, California, which also demand the lifting of the nearly 60-year-old blockade against the island.
The people of Cambridge, the rest of the country and the world would benefit from biopharmaceutical, medical and public health collaboration and exchange between the United States and Cuba, the document states.
For this reason, it orders the city to actively explore collaboration to jointly face the current pandemic, which would include restarting the transfer of knowledge on public health prevention methods, ways to prevent infection of health personnel, and development of new treatments, vaccines and protocols.
It also states that the Council should actively encourage the Massachusetts State Legislature and Governor Charlie Baker to pursue such exchanges, knowledge transfers and collaboration.
Similarly, the city calls on Congress and the President of the United States to lift restrictions on access to Cuba's medical services and biopharmaceutical expertise by suspending all economic and travel sanctions against the island.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Cam ... 6W_swbfVvk
More old news, funny how all this slips under the MSM radar.....