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What Russia is up to with its bold Covid-19 vaccine plan

• dmitryminkovsky 6y ago
  > So far, it is the only Covid-19 vaccine with both a dedicated website and Twitter account, one which takes potshots at media outlets for reporting ‘fake news’, and continually compares itself to rival vaccines on efficacy and price. > Dmitriev – who came under criticism earlier this year for repeatedly describing the AstraZeneca vaccine, which uses a similar platform, but with a chimpanzee adenovirus, as the “monkey vaccine” – is unashamed of this bombastic approach, instead blaming other pharma companies for attacking Sputnik. “There are a lot of attacks on the Russian vaccine,” he says. “We are a player who is new to the pharma industry, having a good product but having to overcome this really negative perception of Russia, frankly fueled by competitive spirits of other pharma players.”