{"id":214645,"date":"2020-10-07T05:24:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T05:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=214645"},"modified":"2020-10-09T06:41:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T06:41:59","slug":"russia-coronavirus-vaccine-russias-top-respiratory-doctor-quits-over-untested-covid-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=214645","title":{"rendered":"Russia Coronavirus Vaccine: Russia\u2019s Top Respiratory Doctor Quits Over \u2018Untested COVID Vaccine\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phil Stone \u2013 Philosopher\u2019s Stone Oct 6, 2020<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Russia may have become the first nation in the world to register the vaccine for novel coronavirus, but medical experts and health agencies around the globe are not entirely convinced of the safety and efficacy of the Russian vaccine. Dubbed as \u2018Sputnik V\u2019, the Russian vaccine was developed by the\u00a0Moscow\u2019s Gamaleya Institute and Russian defence ministry<\/strong><\/span>.<\/a>\u00a0However, the controversies surrounding the vaccine still refuse to die as the World Health Organization has maintained that the Russian vaccine is NOT in the advanced stages of human trials (Phase III). As medical experts globally are already sceptical about the accelerated rate at which the Russian vaccine has been developed, Russia\u2019s own leading doctor has quit, criticising the untested vaccine.<\/span><\/p>\n

As per media reports, Russia\u2019s top respiratory doctor Professor Alexander Chuchalin has quit the Russian health ministry, citing \u2018gross violations\u2019 of medical ethics concerning \u2018Sputnik V\u2019. It is being reported that Professor Alexander had tried to block the registration of \u2018world\u2019s first\u00a0coronavirus vaccine\u2019 on \u2018safety\u2019 grounds<\/strong><\/span>.<\/a>\u00a0Failing to do so, he quit the ethics council of the Russian health ministry.<\/span><\/p>\n

The country\u2019s top pulmonologist has also named and criticised two leading medics, namely Professor Alexander Gintsburg, who is the director of the Gamaleya Research Centre and Professor Sergey Borisevich, who is Russia\u2019s leading expert in virology. These two scientists have been involved in the development of \u2018Sputnik V\u2019 and as per Professor Alexander Chuchalin, have \u2018flouted medical ethics\u2019 by rushing the vaccine into production.<\/span><\/p>\n

As per a report published in Daily Mail,\u00a0Professor Chuchalin further questioned the two leading vaccine-makers<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0about the safety norms flouted by them. He said, \u201cHave you passed all the necessary paths approved by Russian Federation legislation and the international scientific community? Not!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis job has not been done. Thus, one of the ethical principles of medicine has been grossly violated \u2013 to do no harm,\u201d Professor reinstated.<\/span><\/p>\n

He also talked about the statements doing rounds about the safety of the Russian vaccine. \u201c\u2019I am depressed by the position of some of our scientists who make irresponsible statements about ready-made vaccines.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It should be noted that Russia has given the go-ahead for the vaccine without completing the crucial Phase III trials\u2013where the thousands of volunteers are dosed with the vaccine candidate to check for its side-effects and immune system response it induces.<\/span><\/p>\n

While Russian President Putin\u2019s daughter has already been inoculated with two jabs of \u2018Sputnik V\u2019, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has also offered to take a shot of Sputnik V. Addressing the media, he had said on Monday, \u201cWhen the vaccine arrives. I will have myself injected in public. Experiment on me first, that\u2019s fine with me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Adding more fuel to the fire, Russia has still not made any scientific articles related to the vaccine available for the public domain.<\/span><\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s leading virologist and former head of infectious diseases at Vector Institute, Alexander Chepurnov had also expressed his concerns over the safety of the vaccine and underlined the danger of \u2018\u00edncreased spread of novel coronavirus\u2019 as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe danger is there in terms of the possibility of increasing the disease\u2018s severity with the wrong vaccine. With some diseases \u2014and for the coronavirus, this is already known that the infection can intensify with the presence of certain antibodies. So it should be known which antibodies the vaccine forms.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Source\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

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Russia\u2019s top respiratory doctor Professor Alexander Chuchalin has quit the Russian health ministry over the country\u2019s Covid vaccine. While Russia\u2019s leading virologist Alexander Chepurnov had also expressed his concerns over the vaccine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214648,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214645\/revisions\/214648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}