The director of the Gamali Center, Alexander Ginsberg, spoke about the most famous myth about the Russian “Sputnik V” vaccine.
And it is being said here that the Russian hackers stole the Russian vaccine development data from the Swedish-British company “AstraZeneca”.
“We laughed a lot when we heard rumors that Russian hackers from the Gamali Institute had stolen the vaccine drug plan from AstraZeneca,” Ginsburg said.
According to him, the head of the Russian Fund for Direct Investments, Kirill Dmitriev, responded to these rumors on Twitter, and suggested “repaying the debt” to AstraZeneca by making this vaccine more effective with the help of Russian vaccine components.
It is noteworthy that representatives of the Gamali Center, AstraZeneca, the Russian Direct Investment Fund and the R Pharm (a high-tech drug manufacturing company, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in Russia) signed, on December 21, 2020, a memorandum of cooperation in The field of combating the emerging corona virus. This memorandum provides for cooperation in the development and implementation of a clinical research program to assess the combined use of one of the two components of the “Sputnik-V” vaccine and one of the components of the “AZ1222” vaccine, which was developed by “AstraZeneca” in cooperation with the University of Oxford. This is the first study in the world of a combination of vaccines against “Covid-19”.
Later, Dmitriev said, combining the “AstraZeneca” vaccine with an ingredient in “Sputnik-V” helps improve the drug’s efficacy from 62.1% to a higher rate.