Octuple-COVID-19-vaccinated politician dies from COVID-19 at 75
On September 2 of 2020, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) of Russia, received his first dose of COVID-19 vaccine - as a participant of Gam-COVID-Vac (Sputnik V) clinical trials. 3 weeks later he got the second dose with no side effects. Sputnik V ( Спутник V ) is an adenovirus viral vector vaccine for COVID-19 developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Russia . It is the world's first registered combination vector vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19, having been registered on 11 August 2020 by the Russian Ministry of Health . Gam-COVID-Vac was initially approved for distribution in Russia and then in at least 59 other countries on the preliminary results of Phase I – II studies eventually published on 4 September 2020. Both doses of Sputnik V contain non-replicating viral vectors. The firs...