Posted on 10/29/2020 6:42:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In August, Russian President Vladimir Putin ballyhooed the world’s very first coronavirus vaccine. The serum had yet to run through stage 3 trials but Putin assured the world it was safe and effective.
So where is it? The number of infections in Russia is spiking, the dead are piling up, and lockdowns that had already been in place have been extended. On Wednesday, the Russian government imposed a nationwide mask mandate.
You would think that if the vaccine was safe and effective, Russia would have been dosing thousands of front-line health workers and other essential employees. Instead, vaccine distribution appears to be stuck in neutral while the secretive institute where the vaccine was developed remains tight-lipped about its progress.
International virology experts cast doubt on Russia’s claims of proven safety. “People who were immunized with this vaccine won’t know whether they will be protected or develop a severe disease until they encounter the virus,” Konstantin Chumakov, a top virologist with the Global Virus Network, told CNN in an interview.
“And to do this, you need to immunize a whole lot of people and just wait until they will be infected and see whether they will have a lower incidence or they will have more severe disease. There is just nothing that can replace clinical trials.”
Reports say that only 16,000 Russians have participated in the trials so far with only 6,000 getting their second inoculation. In the U.S., Moderna’s vaccine has dosed almost 30,000 people with more than 25,000 getting their second inoculation. BioNTech-Pfizer’s vaccine is testing 44,000 patients while more than 35,000 have received their second dose. Both companies will have to study the results for a couple of months before submitting applications for approval.
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I kind of wonder, myself.
They were sort of pace-setting for a while, but recently it is difficult to really get a feel for how they are doing.
Keep watching.
Putin even said his own beloved daughter was one of the earliest to immunize herself with the vaccine.
Is she immune? How would we know?
Who trust this stuff?
Even doctors say YOU FIRST
I am even more scared of the moderna gates one
I guess I should add that maybe risk worth it for high risk people, but I am so skeptical about them knowing what they are doing
I wonder whether the Russians have put things publicly on hold, for another week.
Just wondering.
Oh sorry, the post above this was to you.
Since August, the vaccine developed by Russia’s Gamaleya Research Institute is being tested in large-scale Phase 3 clinical trials with 40,000 volunteers in Russia. Further trials are scheduled in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), India, Venezuela and Belarus.
Russia has already struck deals with several countries to sell the vaccine when ready. Hungary has also said it’s interested in ordering the vaccines.
On Monday, RDIF also announced authorization for use of its drug Avifavir, which it will offer for free to non-hospitalized patients suffering from COVID-19. The drug has previously been used in clinical trials in Russia and has been shipped to 17 countries.
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