https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210114-covid-19-how-effective-is-a-single-vaccine-dose
Sputnik V
The Sputnik V vaccine is named after the world's first artificial satellite, the iconic Soviet-era "Sputnik 1", which was launched into low Earth orbit in October 1957 – it burned up three months later when its batteries died. Its namesake was developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, Russia.
Any time Russia or the USSR are mentioned there needs to be some added slight in the text.
Is this meant to hint something about the vaccine? Or just about Russian manufacturing.
What Americans can't take is countries resisting US supremacy. Americans liked Russians during the Jeltsin regime when the Russian economy was being decided by political commissars from the US. But under Putin Russia became more independent from the evil empire so now they're back on the red scare anti-Russian racism.