CNN just reported that Russia will approve a COVID vaccine in 2 weeks

[jpak]

I'll get it!

LOL

[DonaldsRump]

1. Why not? We're a Russian colony now!

[TheBlackAdder]

28. Do you ever watch YouTube videos on what passes Russian Building Code? 😬 That's a hint.

[a kennedy]

2. Yah, I just spit out my cocktail on that one........

And I didn’t want the smiling part.

[regnaD kciN]

3. I expect ours to get approved mid-October...

It doesn't matter if it actually works, or even if it carries life-threatening side-effects, as long as those aren't known by November 3rd. That way, Trump can tell everyone the crisis is "over," and it's his administration that's responsible for "solving" it. And lots of voters will lap it up, relieved that they can finally go back to bars and hair salons.

[Thekaspervote]

10. Moderna, the govt backed developer said yesterday they would have a vaccine by spring 2021

No October vaccine

[DrToast]

33. Link?

I haven’t heard that from them.

[dalton99a]

4. Trump will call it an extremely strong and powerful vaccine

[BGBD]

5. China already has one

approved for use by the military.

There is probably a better than not chance that the first major vaccine to hit the market is going to originate from outside of the United States. It's going to be very interesting if Trump has to go begging to China or the EU to let him have doses of the vaccine.

I don't think we're going to be at the front of the line on that one.

I'll add that we know China has been doing research on coronaviruses, which makes sense considering they were the epicenter of SARS. Wouldn't be surprised if they were't working on a vaccine for years and were able to tweek it specifically for this one.

[roamer65]

13. The Chinese will link it to dropping all tariffs and put most favored back for HK.

[LisaL]

17. More like China is using it's military as clinical trial to test the vaccine.

[BGBD]

25. Might be right

Although, they wouldn't blink at just rounding up 50k citizens and forcing them to take it for testing too.

[Trenzalore]

34. Or giving it to the Uigers

Then trying to infect them.

[BGBD]

42. Or just infecting them

.

[Steelrolled]

18. US fed government

already bought a big share of the Oxford vaccine which seems to be leading the race.

[ananda]

29. This is one I could trust.

That's because the prototype has already been tested
and proven over at least three years.

[Buckeyeblue]

6. I'm sure it's a combination of pig piss and vodka...

[jpak]

8. And Krockidil

[DBoon]

16. The coronavirus requires a live host

Krockidil will fix that

[jpak]

21. Good point

Maybe they tested it on bots, in St
Petersburg.

[dewsgirl]

26. Yikes, that stuff is terrifying.

[LiberalArkie]

7. Should be ok if Trump is using it.

[TeamPooka]

9. Give it to Trump's first.

[jpak]

11. And Ivanka

[uponit7771]

20. Right !!

[underpants]

12. Eend RRRusha, vaccine not worried with space or time

or science

[jpak]

15. What a country!

[underpants]

27. Yakov is raking it in in Branson MO

Tours too. He does a whole proTrump routine - he knows his audience.

[mnmoderatedem]

14. I'm hardly an anti vaxxer

but I wouldn't go anywhere NEAR that.

[LisaL]

24. Russian vaccine sounds similar to Oxford vaccine.

I would take it.

[Silent3]

30. Because NORMALLY vaccines are tested a lot better than anti-vaxxers give them credit for...

...but in this case, that's a big NOPE.

[Steelrolled]

19. Russia often takes a more lax attitude towards safety.

[uponit7771]

23. +1, we stopped doing space station crap with them cause the weren't using autopilots for docking

... and other space activities.

They sometime don't give a damn about safety

[soothsayer]

22. Well they just did that vaccine hacking. What could go wrong?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/us/politics/vaccine-hacking-russia.html

Russia Is Trying to Steal Virus Vaccine Data, Western Nations Say

The hackers have been targeting British, Canadian and American organizations racing to create coronavirus vaccines.

[moondust]

36. +1

If Russia was this close to developing a vaccine then why were they hacking other countries' R&D less than two weeks ago?

[soothsayer]

38. I swear I read something where they were testing it on their military

Which still begs the question, why hack?

[StarfishSaver]

31. Maybe that's what Trump has been taking that's kept him from getting it

[Freethinker65]

32. One week after Trump's promised unveil of the GOP health plan to replace the ACA!!

[demmiblue]

35. Exclusive: Russia prepares for world's first approval of a Covid-19 vaccine by mid-August, but quest

Moscow (CNN)Russia intends to be the first in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine, in less than two weeks -- despite concerns about its safety, effectiveness and over whether the country has cut essential corners in development, CNN has learned.

Russian officials told CNN they are working toward a date of August 10 or earlier for approval of the vaccine, which has been created by the Moscow-based Gamaleya Institute.

It will be approved for public use, with frontline healthcare workers getting it first, they said.

"It's a Sputnik moment," said Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund, which is financing Russian vaccine research, referring to the successful 1957 launch of the world's first satellite by the Soviet Union.

"Americans were surprised when they heard Sputnik's beeping. It's the same with this vaccine. Russia will have got there first," he added.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/28/europe/russia-coronavirus-vaccine-approval-intl/index.html

[Skraxx]

37. Why am I thinking of the Clone Wars and Palpatine?

[soothsayer]

39. Story from March on Russia testing a vaccine

https://tass.com/society/1132751

MOSCOW, March 20. /TASS/. Russia’s sanitary watchdog, the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing, has launched tests of a vaccine against the novel coronavirus.
"In Russia in order to prevent and control the COVID-19 epidemic the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology Vector of Rospotrebnadzor has swiftly developed prototypes of vaccines based on six various technological platforms," the watchdog said.
Experts have managed to create vaccines based on broadly used recombinant viral vectors of flu.
"When new vaccines are developed in modern biology it is necessary to carry out in vivo tests on sensitive laboratory animals," Rospotrebnadzor said.

[soothsayer]

40. Stories from July about Russia testing

https://www.precisionvaccinations.com/russias-covid-19-vaccine-successfully-tested

Russia’s COVID-19 Vaccine Successfully Tested

Fact check byDanielle Reiter, RN,Robert Carlson, MDWritten byDon Ward Hackett
July 12, 2020
Sechenov University completes Russia COVID-19 vaccine candidate clinical trial


Snip

The clinical trials of the world’s first coronavirus vaccine on volunteers at Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University has been successfully completed, Vadim Tarasov, the director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Biotechnology, according to Sputnik on July 12, 2020.

“Sechenov University has successfully completed tests on volunteers of the world’s first vaccine against coronavirus,” Tarasov said.

Tarasov added that the first group of volunteers would be discharged on July 15, 2020, followed by the second group on July 20th.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-russia-military-virus-vaccine-safe.html

Russia military says virus vaccine is tested and safe

July 15, 2020

Snip

The Russian defence ministry said on Wednesday it had developed a "safe" coronavirus vaccine following clinical trials on a group of volunteers.

The ministry said 18 people had participated in the research and were discharged without "serious adverse events, health complaints, complications or side effects".

The results of the trials "allow us to speak with confidence about the safety and good tolerability of the vaccine", it said in a statement.

The defence ministry did not say whether the vaccine was in fact effective but a doctor working on the trials said the volunteers were now protected against the coronavirus.

[stonecutter357]

41. Fuck trump and putin !