Veteran Russian Scientists: Announcing the Vaccine is a Flagrant Violation of "Nuremberg International Law"

The chief respiratory physician in Russia announced his resignation from his post due to what he described as gross violations of medical ethics, which occurred as a result of the acceleration of the announcement of the production of a vaccine against the emerging corona virus.

According to what was published by the British "Daily Mail", Professor Alexander Chokalin resigned from the "Ethics Council" of the Russian Ministry of Health after he launched a fierce attack on the new "Sputnik V" drug, before the Russian Ministry of Health approved its registration.

Amid deep doubts among Western experts about the new drug, Professor Chocalin appears to have failed in trying to prevent the vaccine from being registered for safety reasons, before resigning from the Ethics Board.

Specifically, Chokalin accused two leading experts involved in vaccine development of mocking medical ethics due to the acceleration of vaccine production, namely Professor Alexander Ginsburg, Director of the Aesthetics Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, and Professor Sergey Borisevich, medical colonel and chief virologist of the Russian Army. .

And Chokalin demanded, and in an interview shortly before his resignation, to test the vaccine first to see if it was safe for human use, adding that it was impossible to determine this without weighing all the scientific facts.

Professor Chokalin claims to have asked Professor Ginsburg and Borisevich whether or not they have passed all the necessary paths as stipulated by the legislation of the Russian Federation and the international scientific community. It was found that they had not done the job according to those criteria. Consequently, one of the ethical principles of medicine, which is to do no harm, has been blatantly violated.

Professor Chocalin expressed his sadness, saying: "I feel depressed by the position of some of our scientists who make irresponsible statements about ready-made vaccines."

Although no specific reasons were given for his resignation, in an interview with the Russian scientific journal Nauka i Zhizn shortly before submitting his resignation, Chokalin warned: "In the event of taking a drug or vaccine, we, as members of a committee Ethics, in the course of the review, we must know and understand, first and foremost, how safe it is for humans to abuse [this drug or vaccine], stressing that "safety always comes first." Professor Chokalin wondered how to evaluate the vaccines that are currently being produced when [clinical trials in humans] have not been conducted, and therefore it is not possible to predict how a person will tolerate them. "

Chokalin, who established the Russian Research Institute of Lung Diseases and Head of Hospital Therapy Department at the Pirogov Russian National Medical Research University, added, "It is impossible [that] it is [possible] to define this [validity and safety for human use] without weighing all the information and scientific facts."

And he added, "Therefore, our first task is to deduce scientific data and results based on evidence-based medicine in order to understand that the action taken by scientists will not harm a person."

Professor Chokalin said that it is necessary to know "the long-term effect of the vaccine," adding that "the truth is that there are a number of biological materials that do not appear immediately, but only after a year or two."

With Russia also preparing other vaccines to tackle Covid-19 disease, Professor Chokalin warned, saying: “Those vaccines that are now being developed by many of our research centers (in Russia), their safety standards can only be of a short-term nature.” He explained that "safety standards for the vaccine must be long-term, and this is only confirmed through long-term observation - for at least two years."

In a separate attack on the recently announced vaccine, Professor Alexander Tchiburnov said that "the danger is there" and is the possibility of "increasing disease with the wrong design of the vaccine."

Professor Chipornov, former head of the Laboratory for Particularly Serious Diseases at the Vector Institute in Siberia who is also involved in developing vaccines for the Coronavirus, warned: “Time is required (slow down the start of use in humans), as the antibodies are different. In some cases, This is already known for the Corona virus, the infection intensifies with some antibodies, meaning that the situation turns from prevention to a serious infection. Therefore, you must know which antibodies the vaccine produces. He added that the vaccine developers have not published scientific articles about the vaccine.

Professor Chiburnov went on to say that vaccine developers are required to provide an explanation of the level of equation, details of doses, and "whether there is a possibility of infection developing and an increased risk of infection as a result of antibodies." Professor Chipornov said that while this has not been done, it is impossible to talk about a vaccine launch.

For his part, another prominent Russian scientist, Vladimir Chekhonin, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, accused Russia of violating the Nuremberg Law on Human Experiments and the country's laws on human clinical research of participating in testing a vaccine for Covid-19 disease.

Chikhonin expressed concern about the use of military conscripts who perform compulsory military service in vaccine trials. "We cannot conduct experiments on humans," said eminent immunologist Chekhonen.

This step represents a flagrant violation of Nuremberg International Law, adding that "we are only fooling ourselves with this early vaccine, which can cause us a lot of trouble."

Although the vaccine makers insist that all test participants were volunteers, including military recruits.

Russia has made the vaccine race a matter of national prestige and named the producer "Sputnik V" after the names of former Soviet space satellites, raising concerns that safety elements could be jeopardized for Russia's image.

Russian sources indicated that more research is needed to administer the vaccine to those over the age of 60, and at the present time only those between the ages of 18 and 60 will be allowed to take the drug.