Federal, state and local mandates issued by government officials in the U.S. requiring various employees, students and other segments of the population to be vaccinated against COVID-19 have been met with resistance by skeptics, raising the possibility of mass layoffs in critical fields.
But in Communist-led Cuba, having citizens get their shots simply doesn’t seem to be a problem.
“People in Cuba are anxious and motivated to get vaccinated,” Carlos Fernández de Cossío, director-general for the United States at the Cuban Foreign Ministry, told Newsweek. “We don’t have the cultural problem that seems to exist here in the U.S.”
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