BigBearRider
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Mexico approves Sputnik V vaccine
“ Global interest in Sputnik V was bolstered on Tuesday after peer-reviewed results from its late-stage clinical trial were published in The Lancet
international medical journal.
Sputnik V was 91.6% effective in preventing people from developing COVID-19, according to those results.”
Sounds good. Even if it’s peer-reviewed, I think it would be good to provide more data and detail to overcome the potential bias that information
from Russia may not be reliable.
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Skipjack Joe
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This, from Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-06/putin-s-once-scorned-vaccine-is-now-a-favorite-in-pandemic-fight
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There hasn't been much of a bias, more a mistrust from the outset because of the way they were pushing it, without transparency and with a lot of
ambitious noise. They released it without proper testing, this was a gamble. Here is the story from late November: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-vaccine-covid-19-corona...
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Russia licensed it based on early trials involving only 76 people, whereas usually most approvals come after Phase 3 studies involving tens of
thousands of subjects....
"I see no reason to doubt it [the results]," Jones told CBC News in an interview. "I agree that their initial results caused consternation, but I
don't think it's because they weren't valid. They were released a bit soon... We do not know how carefully their trials are monitored and how
carefully they are reported. We do not know that," he said.
...the claim of 91.4 per cent success is based on just 39 people in the 18,000-person sample contracting COVID-19. The sample is too low to claim any
percentage of efficacy, Bucci told CBC News.
Furthermore, he said, it's not clear where these 39 people came from, how old they were and whether the results from trials in one country were mixed
with those from another location.
...initial estimates that Russia would be able to produce 200 million doses of Sputnik V by the end of next month [i.e. December] turned out to be
wildly optimistic. The health ministry now says it may be able produce two million doses, at best.
Putin himself has not [agreed to get vaccinated with Sputnik V]. A spokesperson said it would be irresponsible for the head of state to take an
"uncertified" vaccine.
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Being the cheapest vaccine, it will sell. Better than nothing, when you don't have enough money or can't wait for some big brand. Hungary bought it
already - incidentally, one of the poorest countries in EU. Brazil wanted to buy in December but health minister refused, saying that more proof is
needed - I think they will buy eventually.
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monoloco
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Sputnik vaccine performs well against SA and UK Covid19 variants.
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-russias-sputnik-v-vaccin...
"The future ain't what it used to be"
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Alm
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I donno... Don't see any numbers, only the usual Russian hot air. I guess we shall see. They compare it in mechanism of action to Astrazeneca, the
latter has <70% efficiency as I recall.
Now, Cuban vaccine could beat the Sputnik price if it works: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/cuban-developed-va...
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