Health
In race for coronavirus vaccine, Russia ramps up rhetoric to defend Sputnik V – The Washington Post
A mix of national pride and jabs at rivals shape the Kremlin-led campaign to promote Russia’s bid to find a vaccine.
Russia, too, had turned up the patriotic volume along with the vaccine push. In a promotional video that was part of the rollout for Sputnik V whose name itself taps into the pride of the Soviet Union being first out of the blocks in the Cold Wars space race with a satellite in 1957 the vaccine is portrayed circling a coronavirus-infected earth, wiping out the disease as it goes.
Now that the global competition is heating up 10 possible vaccines are undergoing Phase 3 testing, according to the …
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