⁍ Russia has pushed ahead with its potential COVID-19 vaccine at top speed with mass public vaccinations alongside the main human trial.
⁍ Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, which has invested in the vaccine’s roll-out, has said it expects interim results to be published in October or November.
– Russia has made a bold move in the race to develop a vaccine against H1N1: It’s begun mass vaccinations of the general public, and it plans to release interim results from its trial on Oct. 21, reports Reuters. The trial has been going on for 42 days, but interim results will come after the last of 40,000 participants have been vaccinated. “People are dying just like during a war,” says the scientist in charge of the vaccine. “But this fast-tracked pace is not synonymous, as some media have suggested, with corners being cut. No way.”
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine/russian-scientist-behind-covid-19-vaccine-defends-wartime-roll-out-idUSKBN26K0QL