“They claim the Russians have a good one as well.”
Putin can’t be trusted on anything, but a large randomized clinical trial on the Sputnik V vaccine was done and results were published recently. Very low rates of serious adverse events and only 3 deaths out of over 16,000 vaccinated participants, none related to COVID. I would take the Sputnik V vaccine if that were the option given to me. It may be a very important tool to fighting COVID in poor countries as it doesn’t require freezing. (The same is true of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine.)
“Half of the hospitals in most of America did not buy any additional equipment and ignored the coming threat. They were short of masks.”
One reason was that Jared Kushner HaRasha was having his goons steal them. He deserves some of the blame for the high rate of deaths in nursing homes.