Whose vaccine would you want to receive - the Russian, or Pfizer's?

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The story around vaccines is heating up and the beginning of the end of coronavirus pandemic seems to be in sight. In the previous months, the whole world focused on looking for a cure for coronavirus, but since something like that does not exist, the greatest medical achievement comes to the fore again, and that is a vaccine that as such is the only thing that can eradicate the disease.

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However, all the vaccines that have appeared so far are not a long-term solution and must be received again every year and a half to two years, but they represent a good "patch" which virologist Dr. Ana Gligic already spoke about during an interview with Telegraf.

"According to available information, the particular vaccines that have been made so far can only protect for a year to a year and a half, and that is very wise in my opinion. Their task is only to stop the pandemic as soon as possible, to pull us out of what has happened to us. In the meantime, real classic vaccines that provide long-term immunity should be made," she said at the time.

Speaking for TV Prva this morning, Dr. Gligic also made an appeal that it is very important to have a choice and choose which vaccine we want to receive, as well as that this is the best option that could calm down and make anti-vaxxers change their mind.

What we know so far about the two vaccines that will soon arrive in Serbia?

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Russia was the first country in the world to, on August 11, register the Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus, developed by the Gamaleya Scientific Research Institute. Among the first to receive it was the daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who had only a mild fever as a side effect.

Although the Russian vaccine was registered in the second phase of trials, mass vaccination will start next week, Putin announced yesterday.

Also, 20 doses of Sputnik V vaccine will arrive in our country for laboratory checks by the end of the week, Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov announced in conversation with Prime Minister of Serbia Ana Brnabic.

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On the other hand, the vaccine made by the US company Pfizer and Germany's Biontech was registered yesterday in Great Britain, while these pharmaceutical giants submitted a request for the registration of this vaccine in Serbia as well.

It is a mRNA vaccine, which means that there is no live virus in it, instead it only transmits the genetic code of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and is given in two doses 21 days apart. However, the fact that immunity is already fully created 7 days after the second dose is promising.

Both vaccines are 95% effective.

(Telegraf.rs)