MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's health minister is preparing a mass vaccination campaign against the novel coronavirus for October, local news agencies reported on Saturday, after a vaccine completed clinical trials.
Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said the Gamaleya Institute, a state research facility in Moscow, had completed clinical trials of the vaccine and paperwork is being prepared to register it, Interfax news agency reported.
He said doctors and teachers would be the first to be vaccinated.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2020, @04:50PM (19 children)
If the Russians were smart, they would try this shit out in Africa or India first
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2020, @05:00PM (2 children)
Yes, in the US they wisely plan to give it to minorities first:
https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=42496¬e=&title=Who+Gets+a+Vaccine+First%3F+U.S.+Considers+Race+in+Coronavirus+Plan [soylentnews.org]
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by TomTheFighter on Tuesday August 04 2020, @08:20PM
And if they didn't they'd get accused of discrimination.
Can't win with the SJW crowd, you can never be left enough.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2020, @08:51PM
They are the group most effected due to the amount of commodities.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2020, @05:19PM (4 children)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vVIf0HkqHU [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Tuesday August 04 2020, @07:41PM (3 children)
Interior minister said it was ammonium nitrate stored. Maybe better to store that stuff far from civilization?
(Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Tuesday August 04 2020, @11:20PM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Tuesday August 04 2020, @11:53PM (1 child)
I was hearing/reading the many speculations including fireworks but I discounted those - even after seeing all the small flashes in the several videos. Oh gosh, if they really did store ammonium nitrate next to fireworks... I don't even know what to think, but I hope we someday hear the full truth of this situation. I feel so badly for all of those people. This is a great opportunity, sad as it is, for the US to help as much as possible and hopefully improve relations with Lebanon at the same time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @10:01PM
What makes you think the US has any interest in helping the people or stabilizing the region? Look at the horror we're enabling in Yemen or Syria FFS.
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Tuesday August 04 2020, @05:34PM (3 children)
Who said they don't?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday August 04 2020, @05:41PM (2 children)
Russia has been flat to losing population since the Berlin wall fell, I don't think they're on a growth predicated economy anymore and their rulers don't seem to care if they lose people or not.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2020, @06:59PM (1 child)
i don't know if that's true. Putin publicly pushes family, etc.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2020, @08:14PM
No surprise there. That's a standard from the authoritarian's handbook.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by legont on Tuesday August 04 2020, @06:12PM (6 children)
Russians always try it on themselves first. In this particular case, political and economy elite is trying it since April.
Yes, I know western culture has trouble comprehending it - always was, always will. Russians may be whatever bad things is said about them, but they are stoics. That's why they won all the major wars against all the odds and will win them in the future. It would be smart to stay away.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2020, @07:09PM (5 children)
All majority White countries need to form an iron clad alliance. Not to attack others, but for self improvement and protection. Keeping Russia poor is not good, IMO. We'd have to kick the Bolsheviks out of the US gov/finance first, though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2020, @08:16PM
Отвали от Бориса
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2020, @08:50PM
>slavs
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday August 04 2020, @09:27PM (2 children)
Be quiet you stupid child, the adults are having a conversation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @05:50AM (1 child)
Triggered
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @06:24AM
Ditto