Brazil Rejects the Gamaleya Vaccine
A reminder that "U.S. officials pushed Brazil to reject Russia’s coronavirus vaccine" [0] for political reasons.<p>> Under a section titled “Combating malign influences in the Americas,” the HHS report states that countries including Russia “are working to increase their influence in the region to the detriment of US safety and security.” The global affairs office coordinated with other U.S. government agencies “to dissuade countries in the region from accepting aid from these ill-intentioned states,” it says.<p>The concerted effort to smear the Russian vaccine is clearly the Western version of the anti-vaccine misinformation Russia has been accused of spreading. Textbook projection.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/03/16/hhs-brazil-sputnik-russia/" rel="nofollow">https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/03/16/hhs-brazil-s...</a>