
Any volunteers?
Courtesy of CNN:
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the approval of a coronavirus vaccine for use on Tuesday, claiming it as a “world first,” amid continued concern and unanswered questions over its safety and effectiveness.
“A vaccine against coronavirus has been registered for the first time in the world this morning,” Putin said on state TV. “I know that it works quite effectively, it forms a stable immunity.”
Putin added that one of his daughters had already taken it; he said she had a slightly higher temperature after each dose, but that: “Now she feels well.”
As it turns out even Russian scientists are skeptical.
Courtesy of the AP:
However, scientists in Russia and other countries sounded an alarm, saying that rushing to offer the vaccine before Phase 3 trials — which normally last for months and involve tens of thousands of people — could backfire.
“Fast-tracked approval will not make Russia the leader in the (vaccine) race, it will just expose consumers of the vaccine to unnecessary danger,” Russia’s Association of Clinical Trials Organizations said Monday, urging government officials to postpone clearing the vaccine without completed advanced trials.
You can count me among the people who are unwilling to roll up my sleeve to receive a vaccine fast-tracked by Vladimir Putin.
To be fair I would feel the same way about one fast-tracked by Donald Trump.
No, I don’t even want to discuss possible vaccines until they have successfully navigated their Phase 3 trials and been used long enough to determine any unknown side effects.
As I have said before I do not particularly like wearing masks but there are worse things to consider.
I’m with you, Gryph, not until proven. Fast-tracking anything bodes error.
Even the ‘esteemed’ HHS secretary Azar said in May that Trump’s ‘Warp Speed’ vaccine “may not be safe and effective but we’ll have it.”
Great. I’ll be first in line.
I’m not a fan of masks either but have got used to them.
Any volunteers?
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Hopefully he will donate a couple of doses to trump and pence.
Next up, trump will be bragging he was given the russian vaccine and hasn’t had any side effects.
Yeah, and then after awhile they will be propping him up for the “press conferences ,” a la Weekend at Bernie’s !!
Well, I bet Barr, McConnell, Lindsey Graham and Ron Johnson are hard at work contacting Russia for instructions on what conspiracy theory senate hearings/indictments they can bring down quickly on Kamala Harris https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/1293315417931382784
Also today, one of the most progressive members of the House
– a Black woman, @IlhanMN – just won her Democratic primary.
I guess that’s how the zombies will start huh? From Russia with love? We all know Putin is bullshitting and bluffing. Now vaccinate your’ people and let us see. Zombie ZEE!
1918 all over again. Russia is EVIL.
There are plenty of Trumps that will dose up for Putin. Others will be moving on…
The former GOP operatives behind the Lincoln Project are expanding their list of Republican targets, infuriating allies of President Trump and national Republicans scrambling to preserve the GOP majority in the Senate
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1293367613079330817
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/listen-trump-goes-on-angry-rant-against-female-reporter-while-phoning-into-fox-news/
@realDonaldTrump
Will be interviewed tonight on
@seanhannity
at 9:00 P.M.
@FoxNews
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/trumps-irrational-fear-that-windmills-will-destroy-the-country-makes-him-the-butt-of-jokes/
He hates windmills because he lost that lawsuit in Scotland (or Ireland ?) when they put a windmill farm on the coast of his golf “resort”
Putin loves him a good hoax. The Hoax https://www.businessinsider.com/sarah-palin-trig-birth-2011-4
Dramatic photographic evidence. https://i.insider.com/4e381c1469bedd266c00005f?width=600&format=jpeg&auto=webp
Also, note. Why did Putin announce this today of all days? Already helping Trump by offsetting the news? Hmmmmmm. Everything is suspect with Putin.
Putin started the Pandemic, He plans to finish it too.
Exactly.
The only real cure is to buy some scarves and change them daily. It will also help to have a six year old voice and no spine or identity of one’s own.
Given that putin is KGB (once KGB, always KGB, like the mob) I am surprised he hasn’t had clinical trials done on dissents and journalist.
The historically forgotten Ari Fleischer speaks for African Americans like no other.
Well, weren’t Russian hackers trying to get into all of the companies in the west that had viable vaccine candidates ready to go to trial? I imagine they succeeded. I think the UK has at least two they are testing. I would feel much safer with a vaccine developed by England, France or Germany than any company associated in any way with Trump.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anthony-fauci-russia-coronavirus-vaccine_n_5f338b84c5b6fc009a5f3903
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-v-putin-vaccine-manhood-120821942.html
“American scientists hope this is one time that President Donald Trump really does believe it is all just a Russian hoax.
As President Vladimir Putin of Russia triumphantly declared on Tuesday that his country had produced the world’s first coronavirus vaccine, public health experts in the United States worried that Trump would feel compelled to compete in a pharmaceutical manhood contest by hastily rolling out his own vaccine even before it is fully tested.”
Because you know he will. That may very well be why Putin is claiming Russia has a vaccine.