With 20 million people affected, more than 700,000 dead and the economies of the planet brought to their knees by the repercussions of the fight against the pandemic, Vladimir Putin struck the spirits by announcing the "first" vaccine approved against the Covid-19. A stroke of brilliance - the treatment is called "Sputnik V" - which recalls the finest hours of Soviet science during the Cold War. But if the beeps-beeps from the first satellite in history had given Washington nightmares, unable to reproduce the feat for many months, the analogy with the research against Covid-19 ends there. In the world, at least six vaccine candidates (English, American, Chinese and German) are closer to proving their effectiveness than that touted by the master of the Kremlin.
By approving the marketing in his country before having completed the testing phases essential for its validation, Poutin exposes his population to a product that could ultimately prove ineffective,
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