Question

This country’s mysterious GlowByte consulting firm instituted SAS Analytics in place of a “by hand” system of management for its 36.6 (“thirty-six point six”) pharmacy stores. This country’s capital contains large, green terminals for its telehealth EMIAS (“E-M-I-A-S”) system. A health institute in this country is named after a scientist who discovered that lice transmitted typhus and who laid the foundation for phage therapy. Despite this (-5[1])country (10[1])having a universal healthcare program known as FFOMS (“F-F-O-M-S”), private plans called “voluntary health insurance” are prominent. Three COVID-19-infected (-5[1])doctors (-5[1])suspiciously “fell” (10[1])out of windows (10[1])in (10[1])this country, (-5[1])which later began (10[1])the first mass COVID-19 vaccination (10[1])program. (-5[2])This country (-5[1])likely stole trial (10[1])data from AstraZeneca to promote a vaccine developed by the (10[1]-5[1])Gamaleya (-5[2])Institute. (10[1])For 10 points, name this country that developed the Sputnik (10[2])V (10[3])vaccine. (10[4]) (10[6])■END■

ANSWER: Russia [or Rossiya; or Russian Federation or Rossiyskaya Federatsiya]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y24100%0%42%114.25

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Julian GatchSouth Carolina AClaremont A61-5
Shahar SchwartzUC Berkeley AMIT A6210
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Anirudh BharadwajPenn APenn State A81-5
Charles HangWUSTL AOhio State A8310
Alan XieYale BWUSTL B8610
Brad MacLaineTexas AHarvard A8710
Qingyu ZhangFlorida BHouston A89-5
Michał GerasimiukYale AChicago A9210
Ian ChowToronto AColumbia A9710
Joseph ChambersVirginia AGeorgia Tech B98-5
Leo LawFlorida AStanford A98-5
Anson BernsBrown AChicago B100-5
Kevin FanMcGill ARutgers A10310
Vittal BhatNorth Carolina ACornell B113-5
Geoffrey ChenCornell AGeorgia Tech A11310
Shardul RaoMinnesota AChicago C114-5
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Jerry LinDuke AMaryland A11510
William GrogerColumbia BNYU A12510
Rohan ShelkeUC Berkeley BPurdue A12510
Alex SchmidtPenn State APenn A12610
Justin HawkinsIndiana ANorthwestern A12610
Lexi TermanRutgers BVanderbilt A12610
Robert CondronChicago CMinnesota A12710
Benjamin WeinerMinnesota BJohns Hopkins A12710
Conor ThompsonIowa State AIllinois A12710
Eric WolfsbergStanford AFlorida A12710
Sarod NoriCornell BNorth Carolina A12810
Sean DoyleHouston AFlorida B12810
Enoch YuenImperial AMichigan A12810
Tomás Aguilar-FragaClaremont ASouth Carolina A12810
Raymond JiangGeorgia Tech BVirginia A12810
Vivek SasseChicago BBrown A12810