“According to our information, the developers of the Sputnik V vaccine have already sent detailed replies to the editor of The Lancet,” Aleksey Kuznetsov, Assistant Minister of Health of Russia, told Interfax.
In early September, the journal published the results of two stages of clinical trials of a Russian vaccine.
After that, several scientists from around the world published an open letter on the Italian site Cattivi Scienziati, which specializes in exposing pseudoscientific research, in which they expressed doubts about the data on the Russian vaccine.
As RIA Novosti reported, The Lancet invited the authors of a study on the Russian vaccine to answer questions from colleagues who doubted the conclusions of Russian scientists.
Earlier, Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said that the creators of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine express their readiness to make the drug available to people around the world.
Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor of Moscow State University named after M.V.
Lomonosov, Alexey Agranovsky, in an interview with the FAN, commented on the development of a vaccine against COVID-19 by Russian scientists.