RT published this video item, entitled “The Vaccine War | #PollyBites” – below is their description.
The vaccine war! Who’s going to claim credit for concocting the magic potion that’ll stop the global pandemic, let us get back to our normal lives and get the world economy out of the tailspin it’s currently in?
This week drug-giant Pfeizer said its as yet-unapproved vaccine is 90% effective. Of course Moscow has already registered its Sputnik V vaccine and says that’s 92% effective! So who else is in the running to save mankind (and earn loads of money/prestige/influence)? Polly Boiko takes a look.
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In This Story: Sputnik V
Gam-COVID-Vac, trade-named Sputnik V, is a COVID-19 vaccine developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, and registered on 11 August 2020 by the Russian Ministry of Health. It has been approved for distribution in Russia.
The phase III trial for Gam-COVID-Vac was registered on 28 August 2020, and is a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multi-centre clinical trial involving 40,000 volunteers. The phase III trial is scheduled to run until May 2021.
On 5 December 2020, Russia began mass vaccinations in Moscow, with 70 clinics inoculating those most at risk from the virus. Health workers and teachers were said to have priority in the first mass immunisation programme. People who had received injections in the last 30 days or had respiratory diseases in the previous two weeks were excluded, as well as those with certain chronic illnesses, and pregnant and breastfeeding women.
