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Russia Says It Has Approved A COVID-19 Vaccine

Russia says it has approved a COVID-19 vaccine that has yet to go through large-scale clinical trials. President Vladimir Putin says his own daughter has taken a dose.

Here & Now’s Robin Young speaks with Naor Bar-Zeev, a professor and vaccine specialist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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