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The New York Times about the disputed vaccination strategy of Hungary
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Hungary is the first EU member state to start vaccinating the population with vaccines not yet authorised in the EU, kicking up the Community vaccination strategy, reported the well-known American newspaper.
Vaccination with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, recently licensed by the National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition (OGYÉI), has already started in Hungary. As we wrote before, inoculations in Hungary using the Russian Sputnik V vaccine started in Budapest (read more HERE).
One of the Chinese coronavirus vaccines from China’s Sinopharm will soon be used, according to The New York Times. Writers of the article believe that this move could undermine the Union’s common vaccination strategy. As we reported, inoculation of Hungarians against coronavirus with the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine will start this week.
The newspaper also referred to Hungary’s difficult economic situation and identified next year’s elections as one of the main drivers of a vaccination plan to bypass the EU’s vaccination strategy. The paper quoted Viktor Orbán’s speech in January, in which the prime minister justified his extraordinary decision by saying that “My opinion is that what I need, and what the Hungarian people need, is not an explanation, but a vaccine, and if it is not coming from Brussels, then it must come from elsewhere.”
Until now, neither Sputnik V nor the Sinopharm vaccine have been registered in the European Union, meaning that they have not yet received marketing authorisation from the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
As The New York Times wrote about it, critics of Orbán’s move argue that adulteration with vaccines could undermine the block’s joint vaccination program, which also coordinates orders and distribution. It was even raised as a problem that the price of the Russian vaccine is lower than that of other vaccines, and so the Russian manufacturer is trying to break into the European vaccine market.
The last source Hungary should consider is the New York Times on just about any issue!. Not sure about the effectiveness of the Russia or the Chinese vaccine, but I am sure Hungary has enough experts to compare to the the Pfizer one which is the gold standard. Heard immunity is the key to defeat this epidemic
The EU experts want to try to bump the Hungarian medical profession? What a F__in joke!! And the west is concerned about Russia undercutting them with cheap supplies? So Hungary should put their population at further risk, by further waiting for the failed EU response to vaccination and have the country with the lowest wages pay the highest for a cure in the EU? EU, get off the marjuwanna wagon, don’t you know that smoking it, is as bad as the edibles and eating it?