CNBC’s Jim Cramer referred to an outspoken Russian coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday, “Chernobyl II,” with host “Mad Money” adding that he would take “a hard pass” on taking it as offered.
“Are you going to take a Russian vaccine?” asked host David Faber “Squawk on the Street”.
“Now we’re really talking about an enormous leap of faith. A Russian vaccine, which I think they called ‘Chernobyl II,'” Cramer replied, referring to the 1986 accident at a nuclear plant in Ukraine. “I’m passing by.”
“Is that a hard pass?” an amused Faber followed.
“It’s a hard pass,” Cramer said. “Hard pass Chernobyl.”
“My favorite is that it’s approved, even though no trials have been passed,” Faber notes.
“Easy to come, easy to come,” cramer Cramer.
US markets reacted positively to Tuesday’s fax news from Russia, despite questions about its reliability and potential side effects, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average breaking the market for the first time since 28,000 before the pandemic in March US companies and schools began to close.
“A coronavirus vaccine has been registered for the first time in the world this morning,” Russian President Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Nothing a nice picture: Money laundering and the American art market Blumenthal demands declassification of materials describing the Russian threat to American elections. Trump forgets opinion that Russia denigrates Biden: ‘No one has been harder on Russia than I have’ MORE said earlier on state TV. “I know it works quite effectively. It forms a stable immunity.”
Putin also said one of his adult daughters had taken the vaccine, which he said resulted in a slightly higher temperature after each dose.
“Now she feels good,” he added.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar later said officials both prioritized the effectiveness of the safety of a vaccine under development in the US.
“The point is not to be first with a vaccine, the point is to have a vaccine that is safe and effective for the American people and the people of the world,” Azar said.
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