MOSCOW – Vladimir Putin registered the world’s first state-approved coronavirus vaccine and was probably expecting congratulations, at least at home, for winning the global vaccine race, but even Russians are so sure it’s a smart idea.
Epidemiologists, pharmacologists and doctors in Russia have responded to the so-called advance with skepticism, and do not queue to be injected first.
Russian scientists plan to begin the final phase of trials on Monday, with plans to begin mass vaccination in October.Siberian scientists in Novosibirsk city are providing thousands of volunteers with $1,997 for searching for the vaccine, Znak news website reports.Novosibirsk, where the average monthly salary is $519.
Many are concerned that it is harmful to open the vaccine to the public weeks before 3rd-level trials are completed.”It turns out that five months to create such a drug is too short,” an article in the popular Kommersant newspaper said Friday.
The total corporation evokes the clinical experimentation of the Soviet era that included many primary advances, but had a deadly price, ranging from failed vaccines and accidental gun lab leaks to nuclear fusion in Chernobyl.
To announce the world’s first vaccine, Putin boasted that one of his own daughters was one of the first to volunteer.The government needs thousands of other Russians between the ages of 18 and 60 to do the same.
The Daily Beast asked Russian doctors, scientists, business leaders, artists, housewives and retirees if they would dare to take the life-saving vaccine that has not yet been tested.
The president of the Russian Society of Evidence Medicine, Dr. Vasily Vlasov, said he had no purpose with the vaccine and would not present it to his friends or family.He seemed frustrated and explained that there was no way to read about the findings of the first two stages of the trials.”They announced that the vaccine was ready; however, the creators have not yet published the real effects of their research,” he said.”It’s all based on unclear protocols and the longer they delay publishing, the more people have doubts.”
The search looks a lot like a covert military operation from the start. The vaccine, created through a team of experts from the Russian Ministry of Defense and the Gamaleya Institute, is called Sputnik V, in honor of the unbelievers who won the race in the area of war.satellite, which also called on one of Russia’s major states.- operated propaganda news sites.
Leading epidemiologists and a group of medical experiments, the Russian Association of Clinical Trials, have publicly suggested to the Kremlin to suspend the registration of the vaccine, but have been ignored.Some scientists have warned that it is imaginable that Sputnik V would possibly even aggravate the disease.virulent in vaccinated people.
The number of Sputnik volunteers remains uncertain.Some resources recommend that only 76 other people participated in the trials, others reported that the loads had won the vaccine, some unofficially, prior to official registration.Russian epidemiologists have been forced to rely on rumors: “From the moment stage done through the Ministry of Defense, everything is kept secret,” said Mikhail Favorov, epidemiologist, who is involved in the possible side effects.”Once the vaccine is given, there is nothing left to do, that’s the horrible thing.”
“This vaccine is made of politics,” said Alexander Nevzorov, a well-known radio observer.”It’s a drug record. Thirty-eight others have tried, while the global total says 5,000 is not enough; it’s a record and a record of absolute insolence [arrogance?].
Normal life is back in Russia after the blockade: local tourism is booming and passengers are coming to planes, many without masks.Moscow’s restaurants, gyms and galleries are full of visitors, every day the capital reports between 600 and 700 new cases.There is no doubt that an effective vaccine is needed here, as in the rest of the world.
In an attempt to attract the Russians to receive the Sputnik V vaccine, the government invited Echo Moscow editor Aleksey Venediktov to review the vaccine.On a show, he said he refused. Venediktov’s assistant Olga Bychkova also said, “I don’t need a guinea pig for those medical experiments,” she told the Daily Beast.
The Kremlin has high hopes for Sputnik V, imagining that it could capture up to a quarter of the global demand for a coronavirus vaccine, which would generate $ 75 billion, according to the business newspaper Vedomosti.
Denis Logunov, one of the creators of the Russian vaccine, explained that accelerated registration was mandatory “so that other people in the organization at risk can participate in the study.”This explanation has not provided any comfort to Americans whose circle of family members are in at-risk organizations.”My son, a scientist researching COVID, would probably not let me get vaccinated with Sputnik V, because the reaction could poison me,” said Olga Frolova, a 67-year-old retiree..
Many of those that Russia deserve to at least wait until some of the first volunteers were exposed to coronavirus and that the effectiveness of the vaccine is well tested.One of Lukoil’s senior executives, Vasily Zubakin, had an undeniable explanation for his resolve to wait: “Being in the organization at risk at 61, I’m just scared,” he said.
The Russian public has a deep respect for doctors and scientists.Research conducted through the Graduate School of Economics a few years ago asked which professions other people of personal reputation and 41% recognized doctors as the most reputable professionals.However, for generations, the government has forced doctors to hide the destructive effects of vaccines on the Soviet Union.”For decades, the Soviet government has kept it a secret about post-vaccine medical complications.It was not until 1998 that the Russian Ministry of Health drafted reimbursement laws.”Vlasov told the Daily Beast: “I, young people suffering from inflamed cysts and bones after the Soviet TB vaccine.We still have a lot of questions about coronavirus.”
Among Moscow’s elite, pop stars, film directors, radio and television presenters worry about the effect of coronavirus on their work. The theatres, which are at the center of Russian cultural life, are about to open their doors for the new season..
Keeping the virus at bay is very important to thousands of people in the entertainment industry, but many remain skeptical.”For now, all my friends and I doubt the creation of this vaccine, the turmoil that surrounds it,” said popular actress and choreographer Yekaterina.Varnava told the Daily Beast: “At least 8 months of trial deserves to pass before it becomes a reality, legitimate; we don’t know how they made it work all of a sudden.”