https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210114-covid-19-how-effective-is-a-single-vaccine-dose
Sputnik V
The Sputnik V vaccine is named after the world's first artificial satellite, the iconic Soviet-era "Sputnik 1", which was launched into low Earth orbit in October 1957 – it burned up three months later when its batteries died. Its namesake was developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, Russia.
Any time Russia or the USSR are mentioned there needs to be some added slight in the text.
Is this meant to hint something about the vaccine? Or just about Russian manufacturing.
Yeah it was pretty gross how they constantly tried to slight and discredit them, as if Russia doesn't have top notch medical research. My dad kept digging at it and talking about how he wouldn't trust it etc and I kept telling him it's probably gonna turn out fine and that the media created backlash against Chinese and Russian vaccines is a massive error, aaaaand this is exactly what happened. He's changed his mind now and he keeps hoping the EU will decide to buy the Russian vaccine.