MOSCOW, March 4 -- People in three German-speaking countries – Austria, Germany, and Switzerland – trust more in the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus than in the drug developed by the AstraZeneca company, while the vaccine of Jonson & Johnson is the most trustworthy for these European countries, according to a study of IMWF, a German Institute for Management and Economic Research.
“The Sputnik V vaccine, which has not been even authorised yet, is being considered twice more positive in the German-speaking space than the AstraZeneca vaccine, especially in Austria,” the study said as reported by Sputnik News Agency.
In January-February 2021, IMWF analyzed about 250,000 materials from traditional media, blogs, and social networks about COVID-19 vaccines. The studied materials were ranked from -1, which means negative coverage, to +1, standing for positive coverage.
The most trustworthy vaccine for the German-speaking countries is a drug developed by Johnson & Johnson (+0.18), the vaccine of Pfizer/BioNTech (+0.14), and Moderna (+0.13) come after it.
Sputnik V comes fourth (+0.11), AstraZeneca fifth (+0.04), and China's Sinopharm sixth (+0.03). At the same time, Sputnik V was less mentioned than all the other vaccines except Sinopharm.
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