On August 11, Russian President Vladimir Putin surprised the entire planet by authorizing the first vaccine against Covid-19.
A very premature announcement since the protection developed in Moscow had in fact not started the last and third phase of its clinical trial, essential to prove its efficacy and safety on a large scale.
The controversy has just rebounded with strange anomalies discovered in the publication of the results of phases 1 and 2 of the Russian vaccine in the international journal
The Lancet
.
"Did the Russians invent the clinical trial data for their vaccine?"
, accuses Steven Salzberg, biostatistician at Johns Hopkins University, in a post published by
Forbes
.
"We have seen in the figures of the publication the repetitions of patterns that seem too improbable to be just caused by chance," said
Enrico Bucci, a biologist at Temple University in Philadelphia and specialist in scientific fraud.
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