COVID-19: Russian Corona Vaccine Suspicious: Trial Announced
COVID-19:
[AFP on August 12]
Russia:
On August 11, it announced that it has developed the world’s first vaccine against COVID-19.
Following this announcement, a “skeptical view of its effects” has spread.
Sputnik vaccine:
This vaccine was named Sputnik.
President Vladimir Putin explains that the vaccine is safe and was given by one of his daughters.
Russian Ministry of Health:
The clinical trial has not been completed.
The final stage for more than 2000 people is scheduled to start on August 12.
Western scientists:
I am very concerned about the speed of Russian vaccine development.
“Russian developers may have omitted some of the clinical trial procedures,” he said.
WHO: Tarik Jasarevic Press Secretary
“The vaccine is not yet at the stage of WHO approval,” he said.
German Ministry of Health: Press Secretary
“There are no known data on the quality, efficacy and safety of Russian vaccines,” the newspaper group RND said.
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Russia’s fast-track coronavirus vaccine draws outrage over safety
Russia’s president Vladimir Putin
announced on 11 August that the country’s health regulator had become the world’s first to approve a coronavirus vaccine for widespread use
but scientists worldwide
have condemned the decision as dangerously rushed.
Russia
hasn’t completed large trials to test its safety and efficacy, and rolling out an inadequately vetted vaccine could put at risk people who receive it,
researchers
say. It could also impede global efforts to develop quality COVID-19 immunizations, they suggest.
“That the Russians may be skipping such measures and steps is what worries our community of vaccine scientists. If they get it wrong it could undermine the entire global enterprise,”
says Peter Hotez, a vaccine scientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.
“This is a reckless and foolish decision. Mass vaccination with an improperly tested vaccine is unethical. Any problem with the Russian vaccination campaign would be disastrous both through its negative effects on health, but also because it would further set back the acceptance of vaccines in the population,”
Francois Balloux, a geneticist at University College London, said in a statement distributed by the UK Science Media Centre.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02386-2
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