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Re:AstraZeneca may have provided incomplete efficacy data NIAID by mantas on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @08:12AM (#26554111)
Don't forget geopolitics. Russia and China would looooove to come in with their vaccines and save the day.
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Re:AstraZeneca may have provided incomplete efficacy data NIAID by sschueller on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @08:14AM (#26554125)
The negative press against the Russian Sputnik Vaccine is also quite dominant in the news.
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Re:AstraZeneca may have provided incomplete efficacy data NIAID by fmajid on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @09:11AM (#26554540)
The Russian Sputnik V vaccine is as effective as the Western ones. Fr all its flaws the Soviet Union was a scientific, educational and health giant, and its successor Russian state still is. The Sinopec (Chinese) one is only about 60-70% effective, on the other hand, and unless given away for free, it's hard to understand why any country would want it.

The concerns about Sputnik are geopolitical in nature (weakening the sanctions regime against Russia for its doings in Ukraine, and the persecution of Navalny), not sanitary ones.

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Re:AstraZeneca may have provided incomplete efficacy data NIAID by Throwawayaerlei on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:07AM (#26555161)
The concerns about Sputnik are geopolitical in nature

Not entirely. Their politicians boasted about it being the world's first "registered" vaccine a month before its Phase III trial started, that was an own goal completely of their making. It was only months later where they were able to finish their Phase III trial with very good results, but a few weeks behind the two mRNA vaccines.

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Re:AstraZeneca may have provided incomplete efficacy data NIAID by fmajid on Monday March 29, 2021 @12:38PM (#26624428)
So in other words exactly like Astra Zeneca. A good vaccine whose reputation was marred by nationalism-driven botched design of experiment and clinical trials.

That said, the effectiveness of Sputnik V has been established to Western standards now, so the only reason for the EU to refuse it when it is in crying need for vaccines is political, not scientific or medical.

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Re:AstraZeneca may have provided incomplete efficacy data NIAID by mantas on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @08:19AM (#26554157)
Not so much after EU did 180...

Here in my country PM claimed to never accept Sputnik. Wonder what will happen if EU confirms it :)

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Re:AstraZeneca may have provided incomplete efficacy data NIAID by sschueller on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @08:22AM (#26554179)
Also interesting that a Swiss company is going to be producing Sputnik V [1]

[1] https://www.handelszeitung.ch/unternehmen/schweizer-biopharm...

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