Only half of Ukrainians believe vaccines work: what to do?

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Viktoriia Hubareva

In Kyiv, on October 27, the record for daily mortality was 54 deaths per day. On average, in October last year, 90 people died a day in Kyiv, and today 54 died only from covid, and this is not the limit. According to the chief physician of Oleksandrivska Hospital, Liudmyla Antonenko, today the institution is 80-90% full, i.e. it is deployed as an infectious disease hospital with 650 beds, including 160 resuscitation beds. Of all patients who are in the hospital, up to 30% severe and extremely severe are in the intensive care unit.

If this data still hasn't shocked you, here are some more statistics:

• According to Reuters data, now only 17 countries suffer from the peak of covid infection, and Ukraine is among them.
• This may be because, in the first quarter of 2021, Ukrainians received approximately 232 thousand of the first dose of the vaccine. This is nothing compared to Rwanda in Africa, where the population is three times smaller, but the first dose was received by 349 thousand people.
• And, most likely, this was partly due to the fact that Ukraine, as it turned out, is the leader among European countries in the number of anti-vaxxers: "Only about half of Ukrainians believe that vaccines work. And about a fifth of people in Europe in general either disagree or are unsure whether vaccinations are safe," writes Marketwatch.
• At the same time, it is still possible to buy a covid certificate in Ukraine; this, having disgraced us all over the world, was written about again, and this time in the New York Times.