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    Russia spread anti-vax lies in Ukraine. Will it cause a COVID crisis for Europe?

    by Melissa Healy and Emily Baumgaertner, Los Angeles Times Mar 27, 2022 5 minutes
    Anastasia Vakulenko, left, consoles Natalya Chikonova as they take shelter in an underground subway station in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 2, 2022.

    Long before Russia launched its military assault on Ukraine, its citizens had been targeted for years by another Russian campaign — one designed to undermine confidence in Western vaccines and the governments offering them to their citizens.

    The anti-vaccine messages were actively encouraged by President Vladimir Putin’s government, broadcast by Russian state television, and amplified on social media by Russian computer bots. The offensive was part of a larger effort to sow division within fledgling democracies and heighten suspicion of the West across Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics.

    In Ukraine, the seeds of vaccine skepticism fell on particularly fertile ground. Just 35% of residents are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and only 1% more are partially vaccinated — among the lowest such rates in Europe, according to data from Oxford University. Childhood immunizations

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