Is there anything known to be actually wrong about Sputnik vaccine except the adenovirus vector replicating sometimes? I’d think the latter is more-or-less okay if you are not very old or immuno-compromised. I live in Eastern Europe and we have a large Russian-speaking minority group, who have the same trouble—low vaccination rate and high Covid rate—for exactly the opposite reason. They trust the Russian government well enough and would be happy to get Sputnik, but often refuse the EU-approved vaccines (they are a smart crowd but no-one can avoid a grass-is-greener-on-the-other-side effect). Before the replication news I used to be slightly angry at my government for not buying Sputnik for everyone who wants it, and I still think it would be fine under some age limit.
A person who works on other vaccine, told me that Sputnik (and other similar vaccines based on vectors) generate like 2000 random antibodies and there is a chance that some of them will turn autoimmune and cause, say, encephalitis. Other types of vaccines generate antibody not the whole vector but only to spike protein, like 30 different ones, and there are less chances of autoimmune reaction.
But most people do not know these considerations. However, they had observed how government manipulated data during elections and Olympic games and are sure that they will lie again; or they believe in “Bill Gates’ chip”.
Is there anything known to be actually wrong about Sputnik vaccine except the adenovirus vector replicating sometimes? I’d think the latter is more-or-less okay if you are not very old or immuno-compromised. I live in Eastern Europe and we have a large Russian-speaking minority group, who have the same trouble—low vaccination rate and high Covid rate—for exactly the opposite reason. They trust the Russian government well enough and would be happy to get Sputnik, but often refuse the EU-approved vaccines (they are a smart crowd but no-one can avoid a grass-is-greener-on-the-other-side effect). Before the replication news I used to be slightly angry at my government for not buying Sputnik for everyone who wants it, and I still think it would be fine under some age limit.
A person who works on other vaccine, told me that Sputnik (and other similar vaccines based on vectors) generate like 2000 random antibodies and there is a chance that some of them will turn autoimmune and cause, say, encephalitis. Other types of vaccines generate antibody not the whole vector but only to spike protein, like 30 different ones, and there are less chances of autoimmune reaction.
But most people do not know these considerations. However, they had observed how government manipulated data during elections and Olympic games and are sure that they will lie again; or they believe in “Bill Gates’ chip”.