How Russia 'FAKED its Covid vaccine trial and made billions along the way': Scientists find 'ridiculous' anomalies in Kremlin jab data and say there's only a 0.02% chance trial results were genuine

UK Daily Mail ^ | 06/22/2022 | Connor Boyd

[DFG]

Russia appears to have faked trial results of its flagship Covid vaccine, according to an analysis.

A team of researchers in Australia and Singapore, who pored over the original study, have uncovered what they believe is proof the Kremlin fabricated efficacy data.

Russian scientists claimed the jab produced nearly identical results across five different age groups when the trial was published last year.

It sparked claims among some experts the results were 'too good to be true', given the tiny numbers of infections that occurred in each cohort.

Now researchers have run the trial through a simulation model 50,000 times to test the likelihood of the results being genuine.

They found the chance of replicating the same efficacy across all five age groups again was just 0.02 per cent.

The Sputnik V jab has been mired in controversy since Russia announced its approval in 2020, before the trial had even wrapped up.

Dr Kyle Sheldrick, from the University of New South Wales, who led the new analysis, told MailOnline: 'If you think about it, this trial didn't really have the option of failing.

'There are signs, and lots of reasons to think, that someone might have manipulated this data after the study finished.'

[Robert DeLong]

And ours were genuine?

[DannyTN]

What!?? Russia lied???

I’m Shocked!!

[mykroar]

Who they hell do they think they are, Pfizer?

[PGR88]

I can’t imagine anyone in Washington DC wanting to open the “covid vax data could be fake” topic.

[jimwatx]

So Russia’s vaxx was just as inefficient as Pfizer’s? At least the Sputnik vaxx wasn’t mRNA.

[familyop]

So more dementia in Russia from COVID. That might explain a lot.

[TonyinLA]

And yet no mass covid death.

So either fake news story, or fake vaxx, or both, and means nothing.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Only Fauci is allowed to lie!

[Revel]

And how we did the same thing!

[BobL]

Glad this doesn’t happen with US drug companies.

[mvonfr]

So Russia’s vaxx was just as inefficient as Pfizer’s? At least the Sputnik vaxx wasn’t mRNA.

Plenty of reasons to think it is just as inefficient.

However, it is in a way superior to Pfizer's -- there seem to be no known cases of people who died from it. Possibly just a saline solution or plain water....

[AndyTheBear]

'There are signs, and lots of reasons to think, that someone might have manipulated this data after the study finished.'

Meanwhile the FDA wants to take 75 years to release all the details of the studies Pfizer submitted to them for the EUA. So we know we can trust the studies as much as we could Phillip Morris coming out with a study saying cigarettes reduce lung cancer.

[ConservativeInPA]

And we are to believe ours were legitimate when Pfizer wanted their data locked away for 70 years?

[Gaffer]

Fake it completely or hide the true results for 75 years after giving fistfuls of cash to FDA and Fauci. Same difference.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

A saline “vaccine” would be more “safe and effective” than Pfizer’s.

Win-win!

[DoughtyOne]

I can’t make ny definitive comments about our own, but it sure
is looking like 0.2% would have been a better target than
the one we had.

[trailboss800]

Uh Oh, Russia has copied what American Universities have been doing for decades. In the leftist mind, the studies are still valid because they came to the correct conclusion even if they were fake.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Are fewer people in Russia:

suddenly dying?
having massive strokes?
epilepsy?
paralysis?
heart issues??

[adorno]

...there's only a 0.02% chance trial results were genuine

Pure water would have been more effective, and any placebo would have had a better than 1% chance of being effective. In fact, doing nothing at all was the best medicine, since perhaps many thousands of people died from the various vaccines and most people recovered because they had strong systems to battle the infections.