Coronavirus: Thread

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Wed Sep 29 02:35:55 PDT 2021


>From Laughable Illogic and All About Money and GeoPolitics Dept...


US To Exclude Travelers Vaccinated With Russia's Sputnik V Despite
Distribution To 70 Countries

https://www.washingtonpost.com/s/world/2021/09/27/us-travellers-sputnik-russia/
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-covid-vaccines-approval/31478588.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01813-2
https://twitter.com/SPIEGEL_alles/status/1376861905902399488

A week ago the US relaxed prior pandemic restrictions on foreign
travelers entering the country, announcing that vaccination proof and
a negative Covid test would be required. However, one major
foreign-produced vaccine will now be deemed not eligible as proof one
is fully vaccinated.

Beginning in November, US rules will exclude Russia's Sputnik V
vaccine as being considered an acceptable vaccine, the Washington Post
reports, potentially impacting millions of travelers given that the
Russian-produced vaccine could eventually see distribution to 70 other
countries.

The Post indicated that for any non-citizen traveling inbound, they
must be vaccinated with a shot on either the FDA or World Health
Organization (WHO) list of 'emergency use' approved inoculations.

The United Kingdom also recently imposed travel restrictions which
only recognizes specific vaccines as valid, which excludes Sputnik.
Though US and international health officials have raised concerns over
the manufacturing process utilized in making Sputnik V, Moscow sees
the US and global bodies as playing politics over the science.

For example, earlier in the pandemic there were widespread accusations
the State Department was waging an 'infowar' in Latin America
specifically to dissuade countries from receiving Sputnik from Russia.

Days ago Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the UN General
Assembly meeting in New York urged mutual recognition of vaccines,
saying that Moscow is ready to fight Covid as "our common enemy":

    "COVID-19 is our common enemy. We support mutual recognition of
vaccines approved by national oversight bodies, in the interests of
lifting restrictions on international travel of citizens as soon as
possible."

But the suspicion remains that in the case of Russia, Washington will
continue to red flag its shot, despite mounting evidence that it's
just as safe and effective as Western developed and manufactured
vaccines.

    Vaccine Diplomacy: The Surprising Success of Sputnik V
https://t.co/8HovbKWUF4
    — SPIEGEL Ticker (@SPIEGEL_alles) March 30, 2021

For now it appears yet another example of the "trust the science"
mantra being in reality supplanted by pure politics, or in this case
geopolitical and economic rivalry and competition, which tends to
distrust all things Russian.


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