Russia had the first Covid vaccine. Now its population don't seem to want it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

MOSCOW — In August 2020, Russia became the first country in the world to register a Covid-19 vaccine. President Vladimir Putin announced the news on national television and said one of his daughters had already been vaccinated.

At the time, Russia was set to race ahead of other countries in its efforts to vaccinate its population.

Instead, 10 months after Sputnik V’s approval, Russia's vaccination rate is one of the lowest in countries where vaccines are widely available.

Just 14 percent of Russia’s 146 million people have been vaccinated with at least one dose, compared to 53.5 percent of Americans, according to Our World in Data, a monitoring project based at the University of Oxford.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-had-first-covid-vaccine-083004273.html

[lisa58]

1. Maybe they are reading the Russian propaganda...

Being pushed here about the vaccine 🤣

[patphil]

2. Counting today, they've had 4 straight days over 20,000 new cases.

Allowing for the population difference, it would be 46-47 thousand cases a day in the United States.
The US hasn't seen a number that high since early May, and is averaging under 15,000 new cases a day now.
Getting vaccinated works!

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Can one really rely on numbers generated from Russian sources? I suspect that COVID 19

impacts on the Russian population is understated quite a bit, wouldn't surprise me a bit w/ Putin. China too, is probably the same way (understated impacts on population).

Seems awful low, the numbers of folks being vaccinated, did they not push this more via news or they did not want to broadcast this too much, so as to downplay actual impacts of COVID 19 on the population?

[brush]

4. It's effectivness isn't as good as Pfizer and Moderna, right?