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.
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.
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/
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.
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.