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#Russia #Moscow #Coronavirus #vaccine #SputnikV

Russia has provisionally approved the world's first corona vaccine with the name "Sputnik V", but now there are doubts about the data. According to critics, some study results seem as if the developers had helped with Photoshop.

In an urgent procedure, Russia approved "Sputnik V" as the first corona vaccine worldwide for broad use, although the agent has hardly been tested in clinical studies to date.

Respected researchers from several countries are questioning the authenticity of the data that their Russian colleagues presented in the @TheLancet journal at the beginning of September as evidence of the vaccine's effectiveness. It is about the suspicion of clumsy manipulation.

Did the scientists responsible for the vaccine come up with their results, or did they use Photoshop to improve them? The abnormalities already begin with the second image of the study, criticize researchers around the well-known molecular biologist Enrico Bucci.

The areas in question are circled in bright colors. They show a noticeable number pattern in the data sets. Several test persons had exactly the same antibody level in their blood on alternating days.

The value of the T cells that are supposed to fight the coronavirus is also identical. The subjects received different forms of the vaccine. Just a coincidence? Bucci argues that it is highly unlikely that the exact same numbers will come out in the individual groups,

even though different things are tested. "It's like throwing the dice and getting exactly the same sequence of numbers several times," he told the @MoscowTimes.

mentioned sources:

TheLancet :
thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Moscow times:
themoscowtimes.com/2020/09/08/lea…

even though different things are tested. "It's like throwing the dice and getting exactly the same sequence of numbers several times," he told the @MoscowTimes.