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Russia aims to approve Covid-19 vaccine by mid-August

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SilentPanda

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Russia intends to be the first in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine, in less than two weeks -- despite concerns about its safety, effectiveness and over whether the country has cut essential corners in development, CNN has learned.
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Russian officials told CNN they are working toward a date of August 10 or earlier for approval of the vaccine, which has been created by the Moscow-based Gamaleya Institute.
It will be approved for public use, with frontline healthcare workers getting it first, they said.

"It's a Sputnik moment," said Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund, which is financing Russian vaccine research, referring to the successful 1957 launch of the world's first satellite by the Soviet Union.

"Americans were surprised when they heard Sputnik's beeping. It's the same with this vaccine. Russia will have got there first," he added.

But Russia has released no scientific data on its vaccine testing and CNN is unable to verify its claimed safety or effectiveness. Critics say the country's push for a vaccine comes amid political pressure from the Kremlin, which is keen to portray Russia as a global scientific force.
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Russia says foreign inquiries about its potential fast-track Covid-19 vaccine are pouring in. But questions abound

Russia intends to be the first in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine, in less than two weeks, CNN has learned. And despite concerns about its safety, effectiveness and over whether the country has cut essential corners in development, interest in the vaccine has already been expressed by...
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It's not a race, so why are many people treating it as one?
 
neon/drifter

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1. Russia will claim it works.
2. Trump will get orders from Putin to endorse this Russian product.
3. Our tax dollars will find a nice new way to go to Russia, and a good set of Americans will support it because yay vaccine.
 

SasaBassa

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Oct 25, 2017
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Will the US try to buy this potentially janky ass shit?

As long as it goes through the proper safety protocols, here's hoping it works for its users. One of the many downsides of being a farce government is no one buys your chest puffing bullshit when lives are on the line.
 
TorianElecdra

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lmao this is why AMLO has been praising Putin so much lately and talking about a possible meeting soon. Now I fear we will go for this vaccine instead of Oxford's ugh I hate it here.
 
BowieZ

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Oh good they might have tested drugs on political dissidents rather than using polonium or plummeting from balconies
 
dhlt25

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Isn't putting this vaccine into their frontline healthcare workers an incredibly risky strategy? What happen if there're side effects and their healthcare workers get sick?
 
TheGreatMightyPoo

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