Call it the 21st century’s Sputnik moment.
Coronavirus
Politico: Is Sputnik too good to be true?
A picture taken on Dec. 4, 2020, shows the production of Russia's Gam-COVID-Vac vaccine against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) registered under trade name Sputnik V, developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology in coordination with the Russian Defense Ministry, at the facility of Russia's biotech company BIOCAD in Strelna outside Saint Petersburg.