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Carl Fink's avatar

As I mentioned to John in email, Gameleya is also claiming that the Sputnik 5 vaccine is over 97% efficacious, which is, let's say, highly implausible. At this point they're going into Cold War parody-level "Russia is the best at everything" level propaganda.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/04/27/sputnik-vaccine-brazil-russia-coronavirus/

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John Skylar, PhD's avatar

Yeah, the claim there is aggressive. I didn’t mention it directly in the newsletter because it’s not as obviously problematic (ie, there’s some possibility it’s maybe true—though I agree quite unlikely) as the clear problems with their manufacturing.

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Carl Fink's avatar

There's also the fact that it's substantially higher than their initial claim.

It's an adenovirus-vector vaccine ... one wonders if it might cause CVSTs.

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