A political advertisement or a medical advertisement, The Russian vaccine

The vaccine that everyone is talking about suddenly appeared announced in Russia and also with a satellite name, perhaps commemorating the feat of the Soviets in the time of the cold war, when they launched Sputnik in 1957 and surprised everyone but in special to its geopolitical rivals, that is, to the US

A few weeks ago the first vaccine against covid19 was patented, the Russian vaccine is safe , It is feasible, the birth of a specialist Dr. Elmer Huerta, a specialist among other things in public health in epidemiology, he said the following, “Russian scientists have the ability to produce the vaccine but the method has not been transparent to the Western world. "And well, this makes a lot of sense, because this procedure has always marked the philosophy of the Russians, everything is hermetic and secret, as was their space program that was clearly super classified, but many experts fear that the famous sputnik V will become a cher noble.

And it is that the reason could be quite simple and logical, no study has been published in any medical journal on the development of this vaccine and it is true that the explanation could be due to the secrecy with which scientists from different countries work, but the Science always works in favor of saving lives, but in this case it is a propaganda tool, all the countries with the potential to develop vaccines want to win, they are all competing and none of them wants to be copied, even if they boycott them, however, This secrecy goes against the scientific method itself since science does not come to discoveries based on isolated experiments but through systematic repetition and replication of the scientific community and that is why, as there are no publications by the Russians, it cannot be say with certainty that your vaccine meets all the standards of science.

The first study began on June 1, that is to say In just two and a half months,
according to the Russians, phase 2, which normally lasts between 4 and 5 months, was completed just last week, that is, on August 3 and now on August 11, it is the date when the vaccine was presented, they are already giving the license to be used in humans, practically throughout the population and here is a big question mark, and to top it off the vaccine was not even announced by scientists, but by a president To give you an idea of ​​how politicized this issue is, Putin finally announced that the vaccine is now ready and that it also has permission to be applied in Russia, but there comes the dilemma, and that is that although it is only authorized in Russia it is going to be tested in other countries of the world, like to
if the Russians have another genetic constitution or what do I know.

The point is that along with this announcement Putin has told the interfax agency "one of my daughters applied this vaccine, I think she participated in the experiments and added she had a little fever and from there nothing else" it cannot be said that it is unsafe For this reason, because fever is a small discomfort typical of vaccines but this is a temporary effect until your own body assimilates the virus and produces the antibodies to generate immunity, so this is not a strong argument to cancel the nor to question the ability of Russian scientists to win the race against coronavirus.

So the problem with the vaccine is not It has to do neither with the fever of Vladimir Putin's daughter nor with the lack of capacity of the Russian scientists, the problem has to do with the lack of transparency which shows a rush and this is evident even in the need to Putin to speak of his family in his speech, which and he has almost never done it, which in my opinion suggests a need to gain the public's trust, but because perhaps he hides something.

The failure of this vaccine could also make treatment more expensive due to later medical developments, that is, a laboratory that presents a second or third vaccine could sell it even more expensively, based on the fact that it has investigated for a longer time that it is more reliable , etc. and we are not talking about a small thing and that is that until July there were 218 candidates to be presented as the definitive vaccine and Russia was not among them, it is more currently, according to the WHO, the first four candidates, that is, those that are closest, that already incidentally, they are still closer than Russia despite Putin's announcement, there were two Chinese laboratories, one British and Swiss and one Australian, which were already in phase 3.

The Russian vaccine has not even reached phase 3, it has skipped it, now what is this about the phases, well it is an elementary thing and it says like this before starting the tests in humans the vaccines are tested in animals , if they exceed this The vaccine is tested in people in small groups, it is called phase 1, which is basically dozens of people; phase 2 is the test in larger groups in hundreds of people and a phase 3 is the test in groups of thousands of people are tests in which they alternate in more treatments and the vaccine is combined with a placebo and that as for me the difference between the compound effect and its mere management; But the Russian vaccine has said well, I think that phase 2 is enough and we will also see it on the way, should we believe them?