Name: Sputnik V: Proven Vaccine, Political Ploy, or Both?
Uploaded: 2021-05-23T15:47:43.000Z
Duration: 14 min 34 s
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on the cusp of a devastating second wave of Covid-19,

But the rest of the world wasn't so sure.

give regulatory approval to a Covid-19 vaccine.

and concerns already. A vaccine so quickly

and from a country notorious for propaganda and deception.

The issue is not about the science of the vaccine.

by the Russian government, in terms of approving

and starting to use the vaccine before the phase three

and launching this entire propaganda campaign

on whether Russia's vaccines actually work,

are now left wondering is the Kremlin playing vaccine

politics as part of a campaign to undercut Western powers

Or is this a case of solid science being tainted

by allegations of Russian hacking, poisonings

and interference in democratic elections.

Russia is battling a surge in Covid cases.

in January in Siberia and Russia's far East.

By July, officials reported almost 840,000 cases.

have questioned the accuracy of Russia's data,

deeming the number of Covid related fatalities

Russia acted very swiftly to impose restrictions.

It was one of the first countries to enact a total ban

And by late March, it had imposed a shutdown of its borders

and a series of lockdowns across the country.

after pioneering Russian vaccine researcher

Sputnik V is a reference to a very important date

of the world's first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957

and that marked the start of the Space Race

between the Soviet Union and the United States.

that Russia was positioning itself as a player in a

By May, the Gamaleya Institute had already

started testing their vaccine on the center's director

A move which seemed to place Russia ahead

that they developed was based on technology

they had earlier applied in an experimental inoculation

against the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome

And that's what allowed Russia to go ahead

relatively quickly in developing a Covid-19 vaccine.

it hadn't started vital phase three trials,

prompting worry among the scientific community

and mockery from the Trump administration.

I'm not surprised that they were working on it,

not surprised they started the clinical trials,

but very surprised and a little bit disturbed

to see them starting to use it before they had the data.

And so the entire state propaganda apparatus

to present this as a huge victory for Russian science,

for the Russian pharma industry and basically as proof

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