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2020-11-10 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
After Pfizer's vaccine announcement, Russia says it own vaccine over 90 pct effective
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
 is more than 90 percent effective, a health ministry official said on Monday.

The announcement came after US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German biotechnology company BioNTech announced that their own experimental vaccine was more than 90 percent effective.

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"We are responsible for monitoring the effectiveness of the Sputnik V vaccine among citizens who have received it as part of the mass vaccination programme," Oksana Drapkina, director of a research institute under the Russian health ministry, said in a statement.

"Based on our observations, it is also more than 90 percent. The appearance of another effective vaccine - this is good news for everyone," Drapkina said.

The COVID-19 virus has infected over 50 million people and claimed the lives of more than 1.2 million. And tens of thousands more deaths are feared in the coming months, with the onset of cold weather and the holidays.

Pfizer and BioNTech, are now is on track to apply later this month for emergency-use approval from the US Food and Drug Administration, once it has the necessary safety information in hand.
Posted by Fred 2020-11-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 Have it as an option for Cuomo.
Posted by gorb 2020-11-10 00:40||   2020-11-10 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 And the Russians might even test it one day.
Posted by Thusoting Big Foot1716 2020-11-10 02:20||   2020-11-10 02:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Let us not mock Russian medicine. Back in the 70's they had a treatment for the common cold - one pill in the morning on an empty stomach and 7~10 days later, your symptoms were completely gone!
Posted by SteveS 2020-11-10 13:10||   2020-11-10 13:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Methinks the country that birthed the Great Russia Hoax, dozens of fake-rape show trials, the "1619 Project" & and "Peaceful Protests" and the Nov. 2020 Goat Rodeo should not be criticizing Russia about anything
Posted by Goober B. Hayes5531 2020-11-10 13:18||   2020-11-10 13:18|| Front Page Top

#5 I saw some guy on the news saying this vaccine needs to be refrigerated and that it would be a huge problem to distribute. Maybe our general in charge of logistics for our military can piggyback on some ice cream trucks since refrigerated trucks are such a problem, at least according to the doofus reporter.
Posted by gorb 2020-11-10 14:34||   2020-11-10 14:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Lots of widely distributed medications require refrigeration. The news guy is an idiot (but I repeat myself).
Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-11-10 15:23||   2020-11-10 15:23|| Front Page Top

#7 According to Worldometers, Russia is in pretty good shape in terms of deaths/million and Serious/Critical/million. They can't be wrong all the time.
Posted by Bobby 2020-11-10 18:47||   2020-11-10 18:47|| Front Page Top

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