WHO Thanks Russia for Developing 'Safe and Effective Sputnik V Vaccine'

[Matt Dillon]

I often wonder how do Putin's radiation assassins manage to deliver without getting radiation poisoning themselves?

[PJL]

I often wonder how do Putin's radiation assassins manage to deliver without getting radiation poisoning themselves?

That's just another American boolshyit story

[Calypso Jones]

but you think Putin is a great statesman and world leader of peace lol , id believe Putin controlled trump and could fly by flapping his arms before I believed your claim about Putin being a great statesman and world leader of peace.

He's a great statesman for Russia. He's not stalin or lenin.

[barb012]

The vaccine that will soon be provided to the US population for protection against Covid should also prevent anyone from catching a cold. A person with the common cold if tested will be positive for Covid. The Dems keep telling the public to trust the science meaning the words from our CDC when clearly the CDC has told the public so many lies since this began.

[Calypso Jones]

I trust this president but I DO NOT trust the CDC or any potentially infested government bureaucracy. and that includes the 'sciency' ones too.

[bulletbob]

That's just another American boolshyit story

no plo its not putin has used it on more then 1 person , its a true story your just to big of a coward to admit hes a cold blooded killer who will murder anyone who stands up to him and creates a thorn in his reared, and he thinks he can kill them and get away with it.
your just to busy kissing his lying nasty commie rear end t see the truth .

[Matt Dillon]

Da, Russia make good medicines!
Secret ingredient: Bear pee

[Peter1469]

The Dangers of Russia's Vaccine Stunt

In August, the Russian government unveiled, with pomp and flair, “the world’s first registered vaccine against Covid-19.” Although the vaccine — known officially as Gam-COVID-Vac but marketed as Sputnik V for a global audience — has yet to demonstrate its safety and efficacy in a phase III trial, an emergency use authorization was issued to make it available for limited use in the general public. This month, the horse finally caught up with the cart, as the vaccine developers published, in The Lancet, the results of phase I and phase II trials gauging the vaccine’s safety and its ability to provoke an immune response.
I have to confess that, as a science journalist-turned-science communicator, I am eerily attracted to the Sputnik V vaccine. Its rollout has been so significant, layered, and in-your-face that I, like countless other commentators, simply can’t look away — even though we know that making us look is what this game is about.


I am not at all in a position to comment on the validity of research results presented in the Lancet paper, or on the recent criticism the paper received, not yet from the pages of a journal but in an open letter from more than three dozen scientists. However, since even the authors of the study acknowledge that “further investigation is needed of the effectiveness of this vaccine for prevention of Covid-19,” it is perhaps more fitting for now to discuss the Russian vaccine case for what it already is: a public relations exercise. By that measure, I think there are a few takeaways that are especially relevant for science journalism and science communication.

First, the current Russian government stands on the shoulders of people who sure knew how to exploit a scientific win for propaganda purposes.

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Second, while the outward-facing side of the government’s media operation boasted a high-profile vaccine announcement by Vladimir Putin (he casually broke the news at a government meeting) and carefully manicured online briefings for foreign journalists, the treatment of domestic journalists was much less friendly.

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Third, and perhaps most painfully, the government’s recent communication about vaccination — an incredibly challenging and sensitive subject — has been a bit like that pigeon who plays chess by knocking over the pieces, crapping all over the board, and claiming victory anyway.

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Finally, the predictable international backlash against the Russian vaccine does something that is insidiously bad for virtually everyone involved: It puts the Russian government on the defensive and feeds into the bigger propaganda story that Russia is surrounded by enemies only looking for a chance to stab it.

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Commentators have argued that Russia’s flouting of public health norms sets a dangerous precedent. Government officials have attempted to justify this rule breaking by asserting, in essence, that there’s no time to explain, given the dire situation with Covid-19. Some defenders of the vaccine rollout have even invoked libertarian rationales that would make Ayn Rand smile. But in Russia, this is not a precedent at all. The no-time-to-explain logic is a favorite of a government that does not like to talk to its people, only at them.

Read the entire article at the link.

[PJL]

"In late May, Russia registered the world’s first anti-COVID-19 drug, based on favipiravir, an antiviral medication. The medicine has been extensively used in Russian clinics to treat coronavirus disease since June, and has since been obtained by hospitals in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Bolivia and a number of other countries. ........https://sputniknews.com/russia/20200...-17-countries/

[bulletbob]

sense June hey the virus was started in dec , jan so it took them 5 months to develop a vaccine


How long does it take to develop a vaccine? | World Economic ...

www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/vaccine...

Vaccine development is characterised by a high failure rate – often 93% between animal studies and registration of a product.” The discovery and research phase is normally two-to-five years, according to the Wellcome Trust. In total, a vaccine can take more than 10 years to fully develop and costs up to $500 million, the UK charity says.





Russia is well known for not testing its work and cutting corners such as with their nuke subs and power plants , which have proven to be killers and natural disasters . If you want to plo then please take a dose , Im betting its not been properly tested and will have long term side effects .
your so busy keeping you hed up putins rear it and eating stupid pills your blind to the truth ,but of course when you have your head up his rear end its hard to see and get enough oxygen to think clearly