It should be noted that Russia has given the go-ahead for the vaccine without completing the crucial Phase III trials–where the thousands of volunteers are dosed with the vaccine candidate to check for its side-effects and immune system response it induces.
While Russian President Putin’s daughter has already been inoculated with two jabs of ‘Sputnik V’, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has also offered to take a shot of Sputnik V. Addressing the media, he had said on Monday, “When the vaccine arrives. I will have myself injected in public. Experiment on me first, that’s fine with me.”
Adding more fuel to the fire, Russia has still not made any scientific articles related to the vaccine available for the public domain.
