Twitter restricted and then reinstated the …

he Russian direct investment fund (RDIF), which funded the creation of the coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V, reported this Thursday that Twitter temporarily restricted the account he had created to disseminate information about his development. The social network’s argument is that it made this determination for “a possible breach of security” of the United States.

“Sputnik V’s Twitter account is blocked. We are clarifying the circumstances of what happened, ”RDIF reported.

After the account was reestablished, he added the explanation he received from the company: “Twitter restored access to the @sputnikvaccine account and explained that the account has been restricted due to a possible security breach in Virginia, United States“.

The Russian state fund has maintained active communication through this account to count the agreements reached to distribute the vaccine in different parts of the world and even to offer cooperation with other international investigations, such as that of Oxford-AstraZeneca.

This offer has led to ongoing clinical trials to develop a second-generation hybrid vaccine that could include a single dose and provide longer lasting immunity against the coronavirus.

How does the vaccine work?

In the official social networks of Sputnik V It was published this Thursday a explanatory video on how the coronavirus vaccine works developed by the Gamaleya Institute of Russia, which is already applied in Argentina.

The video indicates that Sputnik V is “a vaccine based on a human adenoviral vector”. “The genes encoded for the coronavirus ‘spike’ protein are inserted into two human adenoviral vectors” which, having been genetically modified, cannot reproduce and “it is impossible to be infected with them”.

The vaccine is composed of two doses which apply with 21 days difference between each of them. “In the first vaccination the vector Ad26 it enters a cell and immunity begins to develop -continue the video-. The second vaccination with the Ad5 vector takes place 21 days later. It strengthens the immune response and ensures lasting immunity ”.