Cuba’s homegrown vaccine plan 

Cuba is a world leader in medicine, and has quickly developed its own promising COVID-19 vaccines. About a quarter of the population has received at least one dose. The World’s Elana Gordon reports on Cuba’s unusual success in vaccine development, and how that is colliding with the current unrest in the country.

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