{"id":58997,"date":"2021-04-03T17:52:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T21:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=58997"},"modified":"2021-04-03T19:50:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T23:50:50","slug":"even-the-russian-sputnik-vaccine-has-become-a-frightening-frankenjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=58997","title":{"rendered":"Even the Russian Sputnik vaccine has become a frightening frankenjab!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia\u2019s Sputnik V formula could be updated to protect against new coronavirus variants in just two days using new gene technology<\/h1>\n


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FILE PHOTO. Vials labelled “Sputnik V Coronavirus COVID-19 Vaccine” are seen in this illustration photo taken March 12, 2021. \u00a9 Reuters \/ Dado Ruvic<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

RT.com<\/p>\n

Russian researchers have unveiled a new genetic engineering platform that they say will enable the country\u2019s pioneering Covid-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, to be adapted, within 48 hours, to fight any future variants of the deadly virus.<\/p>\n

Alexander Gintsburg, who led the team behind the formula, told RIA Novosti on Friday that his scientists at Moscow\u2019s Gamaleya Institute had refined a way of rapidly updating Sputnik’s makeup if new, vaccine-resistant, variants emerge.<\/p>\n

According to him,\u00a0\u201cthis is the same technology, based on adenovirus vectors,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0which was used to develop Sputnik V last year.\u00a0\u201cA new sequence, based on a mutant version of the virus\u2019 spike protein, can be synthesized literally within one day,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he confirmed,\u00a0\u201cand the next day it is inserted into the previously used vector,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and then the genetically engineered construction can be used as a vaccine.<\/p>\n

This would enable the jab to be \u2018updated\u2019 to deal with vaccine-resistant variants that might emerge in the future.\u00a0\u201cIf it gives the same adequate protective effect against a new strain as it does with the original,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Gintsburg said,\u00a0\u201cyou could immediately launch it into mass production.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

However, it is unclear for how long any modified formula would have to be tested before being made available to the public. According to the leading scientist, discussions are ongoing about whether all standard phases of trials would have to be conducted. He added that there have been examples across the world of drugs having been tested on as few as 100 people.<\/p>\n

At present, Sputnik V is said to be protective against all known strains of the virus. In February, consumer rights agency Rospotrebnadzor told journalists that the jab, along with another Russian-made formula, EpiVacCorona, had been proven to be as effective against a new variant first detected by British scientists as it had been against the original.<\/p>\n

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A number of mutant versions of the virus have been detected across the world in recent months, sparking fears for the efficacy of existing vaccines. In January, a sample taken from a Russian woman who’d battled Covid-19 for five months was found to have at least 18 different mutations.<\/p>\n

Prior to that, Gintsburg had warned that the world\u2019s largest country was a likely place for a new variant to emerge.\u00a0\u201cWe are expecting our country to discover a Russian strain with altered properties,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said at the beginning of the year.\u00a0\u201cIf they already exist in Britain, in South Africa, in Brazil \u2013 then there are strains here,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said.\u00a0\u201c[Russia] is much larger. A new strain should have been identified long ago.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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