2021
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.n743
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Covid-19: What do we know about Sputnik V and other Russian vaccines?

Abstract: In August 2020, Russia's President Vladimir Putin surprised the world by approving its first domestically developed covid-19 vaccine, before phase III clinical trials had even begun. Chris Baraniuk reviews what we know-and don't Chris Baraniuk What is Sputnik V? Russia's first approved vaccine was developed and produced entirely domestically and has a name intentionally invoking the space race of the 1950s.

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“…The Sputnik V or Gam-COVID-Vac-Adeno-based (rAd26-S + rAd5-S) vaccine by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, still in Phase III, is different to the previous three. This Russian model employs two different common cold adenovirus vectors (rAd26 and rAd5) instead of one [ 127 ].…”
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“…The Sputnik V or Gam-COVID-Vac-Adeno-based (rAd26-S + rAd5-S) vaccine by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, still in Phase III, is different to the previous three. This Russian model employs two different common cold adenovirus vectors (rAd26 and rAd5) instead of one [ 127 ].…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Zum Zeitpunkt der Erstellung dieser Publikation hatten außer Russland ca. 60 Staaten auf der ganzen Welt (u. a. Argentinien, Indien, Mexiko, Iran, Ghana, Sri Lanka, Montenegro oder Serbien) Sputnik V für den Notfalleinsatz zugelassen, darunter auch Ungarn und die Slowakei als bislang einzige EU-Länder [34]. Ungarn und die Slowakei haben den Einsatz von Sputnik V jeweils per nationaler Notfallzulassung erlaubt.…”
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“…Sputnik V wird außerhalb Russlands zu einem Preis von ca. €8,40 pro Dosis für internationale Käufer angeboten, laut dem russischen Hersteller RDIF wurden Verträge mit mehr als einem Dutzend Herstellern in 10 Ländern unterzeichnet, um insgesamt 1,4 Milliarden Dosen zu produzieren [34].…”
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“…Both the nucleic acid-based vaccines act mainly by coding for the spike protein on the SARS-CoV-2 virus. 11 Figure 1 summarizes different types of vaccines presently available especially with context to Covid -19 (SARS-CoV-2 virus). While the scientists are busy finding a lasting solution to the covid menace the virus appears no easy pushover.…”
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