Russia’s vaccine is being spurned in the West. It shouldn’t be
What we know about the Sputnik V vaccine is that it is premised on proven technology and should be viewed with a healthy dose of confidence
When it comes to Covid-19 vaccines, a lot of attention seems to have centred on the ones being made in the West. So it may come as a surprise that Russia is fifth on the list of vaccine makers with the most doses under contract through pre-purchase agreements, according to Bloomberg’s Covid-19 vaccine tracker.
The shot — whimsically named Sputnik V and developed by the Gamaleya institute — is just behind GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi’s candidate in the rankings and ahead of the shots developed by Moderna and Johnson & Johnson. This is notable for a vaccine that has yet to be featured in any peer-reviewed scientific journal...
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