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ABSTRACT

As members of the global public health community, we thought the outgoing Trump administration in Washington could not do much else to shock us. But when President Biden revealed that his predecessor had left him not with a bad plan to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic—but with no plan at all—we were appalled, contemplating the nearly 100 million infected throughout the world, and the over 400,000 dead in the USA alone. It is no wonder that Dr Anthony Fauci, Biden’s chief medical advisor and member of the coronavirus task force, told the press that he felt liberated now that science was back in the driver’s seat. “Everything we do,” he said of the new administration’s approach, “is based on science and evidence.”
If that is the case, then the US president’s coronavirus task force should heed advice on the global cooperation urgently needed to stem the pandemic, which goes beyond staying in WHO, and listen to Dr Fauci’s own advice on health cooperation with Cuba. In MEDICC Review’s April 2018 issue, he advocated for just that after visiting Havana, writing with colleagues: “(Joint) infectious disease research can provide a model for other US–Cuba scientifi c cooperation.”