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Freeman writes:

Russia offers its untested COVID-19 vaccine for free to UN officials:

On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered UN staff free doses of the country's COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik V[*], which has not completed clinical trials for efficacy and has not been thoroughly vetted for safety.

Still, Putin suggested that his offer was prompted by the desire to give the people what they want: "Some colleagues from the UN have asked about this, and we will not remain indifferent to them," he said during a speech Tuesday at this year's (virtual) General Assembly.

Putin made headlines last month after announcing that Russia has granted regulatory approval for the (limited) use of Sputnik V, the first country in the world to do so. He even boasted that one of his daughters had received her first dose of the vaccine.

But public health experts were quickly skeptical of the move, seeing it as merely a political stunt to give the appearance that Russia was "winning" the race to develop a vaccine against the pandemic coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. At the time, the vaccine had only been tested in two small clinical trials, involving just 76 people total—and the data from those small trials had not yet been released.

[...] Sputnik V has now moved into larger trials with tens of thousands of people. These will test whether the vaccine is safe in a larger number of people and actually protects against infection from SARS-CoV-2. But any clear results are months away.

Sputnik (n.):

"artificial satellite," extended from the name of the one launched by the Soviet Union Oct. 4, 1957, from Russian sputnik "satellite," literally "traveling companion" (in this use short for sputnik zemlyi, "traveling companion of the Earth")

Previously:
(2020-08-04) Russia Preparing Mass Vaccination Against Coronavirus for October

Original Submission

1. "Freeman" - https://soylentnews.org/~Freeman/
2. " Russia offers its untested COVID-19 vaccine for free to UN officials" - https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/russia-offers-its-untested-covid-19-vaccine-for-free-to-un-officials/
3. "Russia has granted regulatory approval for the (limited) use of Sputnik V" - https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/russia-rushes-to-distribute-its-untested-covid-19-vaccine-sputnik-v/
4. "moved into larger trials with tens of thousands of people" - https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/untested-covid-19-vaccine-sputnik-v-begins-40000-person-trial-next-week/
5. "Sputnik (n.)" - https://www.etymonline.com/word/sputnik
6. "Russia Preparing Mass Vaccination Against Coronavirus for October" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/08/04/1514203
7. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=43915

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