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Disinfo: Sputnik V is the first vaccine with a 95% efficacy

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The Russian-made Sputnik V is the first vaccine that has been registered back in August. Russian authorities announced that the vaccine had proven to be 95 per cent effective.

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The claim advances a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative concerning the Russian-made coronavirus vaccine, Sputnik V; casting Russia as the spearhead of the global race to develop an effective treatment for COVID-19.

The Russian government's approval of Sputnik V in August 2020 hardly makes it the world's first coronavirus vaccine. Serious doubts linger over both the safety and efficacy of the Russian-made jab, given the lack of transparency which accompanied the approval process and the "very strange patterns in the data" which the drug's developers submitted to The Lancet journal. In fact, Russia remains the only country which has approved a COVID-19 vaccine before the publication of Phase III efficacy data.

The claim that Sputnik V demonstrates 95% efficacy has been called into question. According to Science magazine, the assertion "doesn't pass the smell test," given that the percentage is based on merely 20 cases. By comparison, the estimated efficacy of the Pfizer-BioNTech shot is based on 94 identified cases, and the clinical trials are to continue until that number reaches 164.

Read more cases that claim that the West wants to discredit Sputnik-V vaccine, or that 6 people died because of the Pfizer vaccine, or that EU prohibits countries from saving its citizens from COVID-19, or that Pfizer used to fake clinical trials, and that the reasons for the West's criticism of Sputnik-V vaccine are political.

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  • Reported in: Issue 226
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 21/12/2020
  • Language/target audience: Arabic
  • Country: Russia
  • Keywords: Sputnik V, coronavirus, vaccination, Propaganda, Russian superiority

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