{"id":17042,"date":"2021-02-02T13:40:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T13:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=157431"},"modified":"2021-02-02T13:40:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T13:40:31","slug":"russias-sputnik-v-is-found-to-be-91-6-effective-providing-boost-for-global-vaccination-effort-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/02\/russias-sputnik-v-is-found-to-be-91-6-effective-providing-boost-for-global-vaccination-effort-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s Sputnik V Is Found to Be 91.6% Effective, Providing Boost for Global Vaccination Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>Russia has been one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic, recording about 73,000 deaths and over 3.8 million infections over the past year. Meanwhile, there is widespread skepticism over the domestically developed Sputnik V vaccine, with many Russians reluctant to get the shot. Now a peer-reviewed study published in the respected Lancet medical journal has confirmed the vaccine\u2019s 91.6% efficacy, as developers of the shot have long maintained. \u201cThat\u2019s good news for the developers of the vaccine in Russia. That\u2019s good news for Russia writ large, which certainly has plenty of geopolitical ambitions surrounding the vaccine,\u201d says Joshua Yaffa, correspondent for The New Yorker in Moscow. \u201cAnd it\u2019s frankly good news for the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/02\/02\/russias-sputnik-v-is-found-to-be-91-6-effective-providing-boost-for-global-vaccination-effort\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has been one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic, recording about 73,000 deaths and over 3.8 million infections over the past year. Meanwhile, there is\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17043,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17042\/revisions\/17043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}