Sputnik V Stop scoffing at Russia's COVID-19 vaccine efforts: turns out its Sputnik V jab really is effective—so effective that it's in a better-than-90% club of three, with Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna. That's fantastic news given its relatively low cost; a lot of low-income countries will be counting on Sputnik V. It also creates an interesting vaccine-diplomacy situation for Europe. Fortune
It probably cost all 4 companies (you forgot Astra) the exact same money to develop the vaccine. It's just one charges a fair price (perhaps because Russians on average have less buying power than average Europeans or North Americans) and the others are price gorging. I agree, why not taking a serious look at the competition while many of the rest can't get their finger out of their arse and constantly report manufacturing problems. But perhaps the US administration wants to equally dictate how Europeans consume their vaccination than how they source their natural gas?
I don't like Putin and his friends, but I have to admit that the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology is one of the top research institutes in the world. My wife told me months ago that Gamaleya had to be taken serious. She knew Gamaleya from when she was in medical school and came in contact with them. The Russian-developed Sputnik V vaccine is 91.6 percent effective in protecting against symptomatic COVID-19 — on par with the currently approved Western jabs, according to a peer-reviewed study published in The Lancet Tuesday. Europe is even thinking to buy it if the problems with availability of the vaccines they bought, continues.
Argentina already got 300K doses, Hungary has a contract for 1 MM with the Russians. Even Pennsylvania is looking into getting some. https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/01/27/report-pa-plans-to-buy-100000-of-russias-sputnik-v-vaccine/
And they tested the virus first in Wuhan? But is Wuhan not in China? You confuse COVID with Novitsjok.
Invent and release virus, pretend lockdowns solve it while just ignoring it, make the entire world close down into lockdowns that obviously don't work out of FEAR! Then exploit everyone being in a depression without firing a single shot, genius! Sell masks awell, billions of them all cheap and pointless most pre contaminated with covid and reap the profits.
Russians don't use carrier pigeons, they sent the virus to Wuhan via carrier bats. Not sure how they prevented them from flying back home again, maybe they had slow release poison which killed them.
No not better than the Pfizer/Moderna type. It works same way as AstraZeneca and the J&J vaccine but more effective than them because it uses a different adenovirus in the 2nd booster shot whereas AstraZeneca uses the same adenovirus in both shots. By using a different adenovirus in the 2nd booter shot, it apparently stimulates the body more to produce a stronger immune response because the body recognizes it as a new virus so that's why it's more effective especially among people 65+. But it's still not as effective as Pfizer/Moderna in that 1) it's not or at least not as effective against the new variant because it's using the spike protein of the original Wuhan virus whereas the Pfizer/Moderna one uses the mRNA DNA instructions to teach our own body to make the spike protein ourselves so if the spike protein mutated in some way in the variant the spike protein that our own body made would recognize it and 2) it takes longer to be effective. IMPO and I don't own any shares of Pfizer or any other companies associated with Pfizer, I personally think the Pfizer vaccine is the best. If I really do get a choice to choose, I would definitely choose the Pfizer vaccine for the same amount of side effects. Highest effective rate, fastest to be effective, smaller dosage of just 30 microgram, effective against the mutated variant...