Cuba’s Interferon drug effective against Coronavirus

Cuba’s Interferon drug effective against coronavirus. Above Graduates from Cuba’s University of Medical Sciences 

Helen Yaffe, a specialist in Cuban and Latin American development at the University of Glasgow has testified that Cuba’s Interferon Alfa-2B, is now being used to combat the effects of COVID-19. It was used in China, she wrote in a blog published by the London School of Economics on 18 March. 

Yaffe said Cuba was able to develop the drug because of its early entry into the biotech industry, which allowed it to harness international expertise and develop medicines to fight dengue fever and meningitis.

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