© The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF)/Handout via REUTERSFILE PHOTO: A handout photo provided by the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) shows samples of a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, in Moscow, Russia August 6, 2020. Picture taken August 6, 2020.
Russia has produced the first batch of its new vaccine for COVID-19, the Interfax news agency quoted the health ministry as saying on Saturday, hours after the ministry reported the start of manufacturing.
Some scientists said they fear that with this fast regulatory approval Moscow may be putting national prestige before safety amid the global race to develop a vaccine against the disease.
Russia has said the vaccine, the first for the coronavirus to go into production, will be rolled out by the end of this month.
Its approval comes before trials that would normally involve thousands of participants, commonly known as Phase III. Such trials are usually considered essential precursors for a vaccine to secure regulatory approval.
The vaccine has been named "Sputnik V" in homage to the world's first satellite launched by the Soviet Union.
President Vladimir Putin has assured the public that it is safe, adding that one of his daughters had taken it as a volunteer and felt good afterwards.Moscow's Gamaleya Institute, which developed the vaccine, said previously that Russia would be producing about 5 million doses a month by December-January, Interfax said.
Comment: RT reports that Trump is hoping the US' attempt will be out soon, although from what has been reported about the US' controversial project '
Warp Speed' vaccine research, its side effects could be deadly:
The jab, dubbed 'Sputnik V', is supposed to offer protection from the coronavirus for up to two years.
Asked about the rapidly developed vaccine at a Friday press conference, Trump said he hoped the vaccine would be effective, but claimed the US may soon have good news to share, too, when it comes to a vaccine.
"We don't know much about it. We hope it works, we do, we hope it works."
He added that an American vaccine could be approved and distributed before the end of the year.
The president also claimed a US vaccine is taking longer only because America has instituted a longer trial process.
"They've [that is, the Russians] cut off certain trials, and we just feel it's important to go through the process. We have numerous different vaccines that we think are going to work, but we want to go through a system of trials," he said.
As to who will first receive the vaccine, Trump insisted "elderly" citizens living in nursing homes or retirement communities will likely have early access. When it came to himself, he equivocated, saying he would either be "first or last" to receive it.
Despite having been registered, the Sputnik V vaccine will continue to undergo trials involving thousands of people in Russia and abroad. Some 20 countries have already queued up to get the promising jab or have offered cooperation in its production and distribution, and Moscow says hundreds of millions of doses could be produced globally each year.
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Despite official claims that the world's first coronavirus vaccine is completely safe, 52 percent of Russian doctors who responded to an online survey indicated that they're not ready to take...It was hard to find what kind of vaccine it is, but I finally got it. In laymans terms, they are using a virus to fight a virus.
This vaccine uses a smaller, synthetically programmed virus (an adenovirus vector) to invade the target cells (muscle, usually) to introduce a foreign, lab-made RNA (a single strand DNA) into the nucleus of those cells. This RNA fragment is then reverse copied by mechanisms in the cell nucleus. The reverse-copied RNA is then used by the same cells to manufacture a specific protein in the cell which is identical to the external 'spike protein' of the SARS-CoV-2 virus particle (the part which the virus particle uses to enter the host cell wall and thus infect the host cell's nucleus). These artificially manufactured 'spike proteins' are subsequently ejected by the cell, causing an immune response by white blood cells and killer T cells. The memory function of the immune response means that they will immediately recognise SARS-CoV-2 if it is inhaled into the body and automatically attack it as foreign (its the same spike protein the immune system has already recognised as a foreign entity).
CONCERNS:
It is not specified whether this particular adenovirus vector RNA vaccine will actually replace and rewrite a segment of the host cell DNA (genome) to ensure continuing production of the spike protein. Some vector vaccines of this type certainly do this; others merely produce the protein for a while until the reverse-copied RNA is exhausted (thus requiring additional injections). I am extremely cautious about viral vector vaccines for this reason: they never specify whether the RNA fragment is fully incorporated into the host's genome (1980s technology) or if the RNA is simply brought into the cell nucleus until it is exhausted.
Secondly, if the 'virus particle' being targeted in this way (currently called by science 'SARS-CoV-2') is actually a natural byproduct of a normal healthy immune system, e.g. a cellular exosome, then all the vaccine will accomplish is a massive crippling of healthy immune function. It is worth remembering in this regard that Rivers Postulates (1937) have never been fulfilled in any study anywhere demonstrating that SARS-CoV-2 is absolutely without any question or debate the singular and only cause of COVID-19.
Combine concern A with concern B, and you have a vaccinated individual whose DNA has been permanently and irreversibly altered so that their own body endlessly produces proteins which cripple its own immune response. That person then has to live with those changes and any unintended side effects for the rest of their life.
Note that not all CV-19 vaccines being developed right now are viral vectors (Moderna [USA] and AstraZeneca [UK] are both of this type).
That's the risk here, folks. You decide if its worth it.