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President Vladimir Putins announcement in August that Russia had cleared the worlds first COVID-19 vaccine for use before it even completed safety trials sparked skepticism worldwide. Now he may reap diplomatic dividends as Russia basks in arguably its biggest scientific breakthrough since the Soviet era.
Countries are lining up for supplies of Sputnik V after peer-reviewed results published in The Lancet medical journal this week showed the Russian vaccine protects against the deadly virus about as well as U.S. and European shots, and far more effectively than Chinese rivals.
At least 19 countries have approved the inoculation for use, including European Union member state Hungary, while key markets such as Brazil and India are close to authorizing it. Now Russias setting its sights on the prized EU market as the bloc struggles with its vaccination program amid supply shortages.
In the global battle to defeat a pandemic thats claimed 2.3 million lives in little more than a year, the race to obtain vaccines has assumed geopolitical significance as governments seek to emerge from the huge social and economic damage caused by lockdowns imposed to limit the spread of the virus. Thats giving Russia an edge as one of a handful of countries where scientists have produced an effective defense.
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Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Wouldnt put it past him to do so!!
LisaL
(44,973 posts)It has a different design from other vaccines.
JI7
(89,247 posts)LisaL
(44,973 posts)NT
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Putin lies quite unregenerately.
Dorian Gray
(13,491 posts)is good for the world. I am always nervous about accepting Russian results, but the science of this is the science. One more tool to use in the world to fight the pandemic and finally get it under control.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)Astra Zeneca apparently doesn't work against South African virus.
orwell
(7,771 posts)...Operation Warp Speed?
Isn't that how glorious leader Drumpf saved the world?
I'm so confused...
OnDoutside
(19,953 posts)LisaL
(44,973 posts)you wouldn't be able to get it even if you wanted it.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)well for the sake of those hopefully fortunate enough to get it. Two of China's vaccines many nations had contracted for turned out to have low efficacy. Now AstraZeneca and the South African variant...
OnDoutside
(19,953 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)OnDoutside
(19,953 posts)LSFL
(1,109 posts)I am with dozens of dead cosmonauts in saying that you cannot trust Russian reports. Sorry.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Luckily it isn't.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Just a small side effect.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Just a genetically altered adenovirus.
Pfizer and Modernas vaccines are the beginning of a whole new treatment methodology.
But...hey...Brazil needs something...anything. Fucking Bolsonaro.