08-12-2020, 03:05 AM
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/worl...342181001/
Russia has claimed victory in the race for a coronavirus vaccine after it became the first country to officially register one and declare it ready for use Tuesday, despite less than two months of human testing and not completing final trials.
President Vladimir Putin emphasized at a government meeting Tuesday that the vaccine, developed by the Moscow-based Gamaleya Institute, underwent the “necessary tests” and even said the vaccine already has been given to one of his daughters.
Putin said his daughter had a “high number of antibodies." He didn’t specify which of his two daughters – Maria or Katerina – receive the vaccine.
The vaccine will be marketed under the name Sputnik V on foreign markets. Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, compared the moment to the Soviet Union’s 1957 launch of the world’s first satellite, Sputnik 1, according to Reuters.
But the international scientific community is sounding the alarm that the rush to start using the vaccine before completing Phase 3 trials – which usually last months and involve thousands of people – could backfire.
“Not sure what Russia is up to but I certainly would not take a vaccine that hasn’t been tested in Phase III,” Florian Krammer, professor of vaccinology at the Department of Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, said on Twitter Tuesday. “Nobody knows if it’s safe or if it works.”
While I, along with the rest of the world, are ready for this Covid-19 business to come to an end are we sure this is the right way to go? Testing does seem a bit rushed. I mean I am not convinced either way. The vaccine could be good or bad, but simply we don't have enough information to know. Judgment internationally right now seems to suggest it is bad and a propaganda piece. Is it though? Is Russia really going to claim to have found a vaccine and not really do the testing? If this truly is rushed and not tested in the long run it can only hurt Russia's people. I mean I am in no rush to take the vaccine, and I doubt the FDA will approve it in the US anyway. I guess we will just have to wait and see what the outcome truly is.
Russia has claimed victory in the race for a coronavirus vaccine after it became the first country to officially register one and declare it ready for use Tuesday, despite less than two months of human testing and not completing final trials.
President Vladimir Putin emphasized at a government meeting Tuesday that the vaccine, developed by the Moscow-based Gamaleya Institute, underwent the “necessary tests” and even said the vaccine already has been given to one of his daughters.
Putin said his daughter had a “high number of antibodies." He didn’t specify which of his two daughters – Maria or Katerina – receive the vaccine.
The vaccine will be marketed under the name Sputnik V on foreign markets. Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, compared the moment to the Soviet Union’s 1957 launch of the world’s first satellite, Sputnik 1, according to Reuters.
But the international scientific community is sounding the alarm that the rush to start using the vaccine before completing Phase 3 trials – which usually last months and involve thousands of people – could backfire.
“Not sure what Russia is up to but I certainly would not take a vaccine that hasn’t been tested in Phase III,” Florian Krammer, professor of vaccinology at the Department of Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, said on Twitter Tuesday. “Nobody knows if it’s safe or if it works.”
While I, along with the rest of the world, are ready for this Covid-19 business to come to an end are we sure this is the right way to go? Testing does seem a bit rushed. I mean I am not convinced either way. The vaccine could be good or bad, but simply we don't have enough information to know. Judgment internationally right now seems to suggest it is bad and a propaganda piece. Is it though? Is Russia really going to claim to have found a vaccine and not really do the testing? If this truly is rushed and not tested in the long run it can only hurt Russia's people. I mean I am in no rush to take the vaccine, and I doubt the FDA will approve it in the US anyway. I guess we will just have to wait and see what the outcome truly is.
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