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<\/div>Russian officials claim to have developed a coronavirus vaccine that’s 100 percent effective, and officials say they’re trying it out on themselves and their family — but, worryingly, there’s no publicly-available evidence to suggest that it actually works.<\/p>
Russia’s state-operated research facility, the Gamaleya Research Institute, says it’s ready for a phase 3 clinical trial that it wants to conduct on doctors and teachers, Quartz <\/a><\/em>reports<\/a>. Unfortunately, the World Health Organization (WHO) doesn’t seem to have data suggesting the experimental vaccine is that far along.<\/p> The Gamaleya Research Institute filed a small phase 1 study<\/a>, but never published any results. Kirill Dmitriev, the chief executive of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, told a newspaper in the United Arab Emirates<\/a> that the researchers want to begin a phase 3 trial in that country, but also that Russia wants to begin mass inoculation in September or October.<\/p> If the vaccine is approved for use — something CNN<\/em> reports<\/a> that the Gamaleya Institute hopes will happen by mid-August — Russia plans to distribute it to healthcare workers on the front lines.<\/p> Even if the vaccine flew through the earlier phases of clinical research, as Dmitriev claimed, a properly-conducted phase 3 clinical trial takes months.<\/p> WHO spokesperson Margaret Ann Harris told Quartz<\/em> that the organization was aware that a Russian vaccine was entering phase 3, but didn’t elaborate on previous results or safety concerns.<\/p> But the lack of publicly available safety and efficacy data hasn’t stopped Russian officials from making extremely bold, questionable claims about the research.<\/p> “Based on Phase 1 and Phase 2 clinical trials, we also show that 100 percent of about 100 people generated a very high level of antibodies,” Dmitriev told The National<\/em>.<\/p> Dmitriev added that he and his parents already took the vaccine. Project director Alexander Ginsburg told CNN<\/em> he injected himself with the vaccine as well.<\/p> The post Russian Officials Are Injecting Themselves With an Experimental COVID Vaccine<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Read the rest here: Russian officials claim to have developed a coronavirus vaccine that\u2019s 100 percent effective,\u00a0and officials say they\u2019re trying it out on themselves and their family \u2014 but, worryingly, there\u2019s no publicly-available evidence to suggest that it actually works. Russia\u2019s state-operated research facility, the Gamaleya Research Institute, says it\u2019s ready for a phase 3 clinical trial that it wants to conduct on doctors and teachers, Quartz reports Continue reading
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