The British newspaper "Daily Mail" reported that the chief respiratory doctor "chest" in Russia has resigned from his post due to the urgent production of a vaccine against the Corona virus.
Late yesterday, Thursday, the newspaper said that Professor Alexander Chochalin submitted his resignation due to what he described as grave violations of medical ethics, which occurred as a result of the urgency to produce a vaccine against the Corona virus.
She added that Chochalin resigned from the "Ethics Council" of the Russian Ministry of Health after launching a fierce attack on the new "Sputnik V" vaccine, shortly before the authority approved its registration.
According to the newspaper, Chochalin sought to prevent the registration of the vaccine for safety reasons, and failed in its endeavor, before leaving the Ethics Board.
The Russian professor accused experts involved in vaccine development of underestimating medical ethics due to the acceleration of vaccine production.
Chochalin said that not all the necessary paths approved by the legislation of the Russian Federation and the international scientific community have been crossed, and that one of the ethical principles of medicine has been blatantly violated, which is not to cause any harm.
He also expressed his dismay at the stance of "some of our scientists who make irresponsible statements about ready-made vaccines."
How safe is the vaccine?
Chochalin questioned, in an interview shortly before his resignation, how safe the vaccine was in humans.
He said safety always comes first. The vaccines produced today have never been used in humans, and we cannot predict how a person will tolerate them.
Chochalin stressed the need 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 maybe after a year or two."
On the vaccines that Russia is preparing to confront the Corona virus, he explained that "those vaccines that are now being developed by many of our research centers, their safety standards can only be of a short-term nature."
It is noteworthy that on 11 August, President Vladimir Putin announced that his country had registered the first vaccine in the world against Corona, without Moscow disclosing detailed studies of the results of its clinical trials that would allow confirmation of the results of the vaccine.
Putin indicated that the production of the first batches of the new Russian vaccine, "Sputnik V," would begin within the next two weeks.