Posted on 12/02/2020 11:15:36 AM PST by EBH
President Vladimir Putin has ordered the mass vaccination against coronavirus among the Russian population to start late next week, with doctors and teachers first in line to receive the country's Sputnik V jab.
The order came hours after Britain became the first western country to issue general-use approval for Pfizer-BioNTech’s jab starting next week.
“Let’s organize the process so that large-scale vaccination starts late next week,” Putin told Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova, who is overseeing Russia’s Covid-19 response efforts, in a videoconference Wednesday.
Putin said around 2 million Sputnik V vaccine doses have either already been produced or will be manufactured in the coming days, allowing Russian doctors and teachers to receive the two-dose jabs immediately.
“Let’s make a deal: Don’t report to me but start large-scale vaccination next week,” he told Golikova, who cautiously promised “there’s a chance for large-scale vaccination in December.”
“I understand we need to be cautious, but I know that the industry and the network are generally ready,” Putin said during the meeting on Covid-19 field hospitals deployed by the Russian military to hard-hit regions.
“Let’s make that first step,” Putin said.
Russia was the first country to register a coronavirus vaccine in August despite Sputnik V's incomplete clinical trials. Its developers have since touted a 95% efficacy rate based on interim results of Phase 3 trials.
Should be interesting to see what happens.
I hope people won’t be getting terrible side effects.
He’s already on shaky grounds.
Standing by. I doubt any negatives will be reported. Funny how that happens.
That said, Russia is possibly more honest now than the US is in a way. Like so many other countries, at least the are hones about their dishonesty where the US plays all sanctimonious.
Coincidentally, Tatiana is sort of attractive in a 54 year-old Russian sort of way.
Remember when we used to say that only in a totalitarian society can a tyrant’s whims be casually imposed on a population? Makes me feel nostalgic!
Russia is not ignorant and quite capable of producing a vaccine.
When Putin says “Let’s” do this or that, it sounds like a suggestion.
what did these other countries put into this ? and do they deserve it befor any american ?
yes im selfish !! AMERICA first
In the old days, the Soviets used to offer assistance to “developing nations,” those 3rd world banana republics that couldn’t even run an election.
Perhaps Putin should offer Biden the Sputnik vaccine as assistance to the banana republic US.
“Russia is not ignorant and quite capable of producing a vaccine.”
And don’t forget their bioweapons programs. Far bigger than ours (and maybe still going), and ours was big. Comes in VERY HANDY when vaccines are needed.
It is sad but true that Russia will more honest than the US government. I breaks my heart.
At least it is not an mRNA vaccine. Haven’t heard whether it was developed or tested using fetal cell lines.
Yup, during the barky years I said that Russia probably had more freedoms than we did.
They sure have more of a national identity and knack for self-preservation.
The Sputnik Vaccine DID USE human fetal cell lines in development.
--NYT article
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