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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Aug 11, 2020, 08:28 PM Aug 2020

Fauci 'seriously doubts' the Russia vaccine is ready for widespread use

CONCOCTING A VACCINE is not the same thing as proving a vaccine is safe and effective. That’s Anthony Fauci’s take on the news out of Moscow that Russia has approved and is ready to market a coronavirus vaccine.

Fauci, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, made the comments as part of a keynote interview for Stopping Pandemics, an exclusive event due to air August 13 via National Geographic.

“I hope that the Russians have actually definitively proven that the vaccine is safe and effective,” Fauci said to ABC News correspondent Deborah Roberts, who is moderating the event. “I seriously doubt that they've done that.”

Russia has hinted all summer that it’s progressing quickly on its vaccine candidate, which is named Sputnik V after the nation’s groundbreaking satellite launched in 1960. In May, the director of the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, where the vaccine is being developed, said he and other researchers had begun testing the drug on themselves before the first phase of human trials began with 76 subjects a month later.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/08/fauci-seriously-doubts-russia-coronavirus-vaccine-is-ready-cvd/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=SpecialEdition_Fauci_20200811&rid=FB26C926963C5C9490D08EC70E179424

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Fauci 'seriously doubts' the Russia vaccine is ready for widespread use (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2020 OP
I don't believe or trust one word from Russia. Nyet. Guilded Lilly Aug 2020 #1
... demmiblue Aug 2020 #2
Russia doesn't have a vaccine. Initech Aug 2020 #3

Initech

(100,102 posts)
3. Russia doesn't have a vaccine.
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 03:04 PM
Aug 2020

It's the classic Bluth Company "build a fake house and make it look like a real one" strategy from Arrested Development.

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