Russia. Quality control. Pick one.

Pootie-poot (not to be confused by my younger reader(s) with PewDiePie) announced that Russia has registered a coronavirus vaccine.

Surprise--the development process appears to involve corner-cutting:

Russian officials have said large-scale production of the vaccine will start in September, and mass vaccination may begin as early as October.

However, the international scientific community is sounding the alarm that the rush to start using the vaccine before Phase 3 trials – which normally last for months and involve thousands of people – could backfire.

“Not sure what Russia is up to but I certainly would not take a vaccine that hasn’t been tested in Phase III,” Florian Krammer, Professor of Vaccinology at the Department of Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, said on Twitter Tuesday. “Nobody knows if it’s safe or if it works.”

Versions of the vaccine made available to regime critics may come with special additives like Surprise Polonium! and side effects may include Sudden Falls From Upper Story Windows.