This week's Kyiv Post has excellent coverage of the flu panic in Ukraine - especially the article below:
"If you correlate the number of those who got sick (and multiply by two because only a half of people come to the doctor), and the number of those who have died, it becomes a confirmed fact that there is no especially heavy viral disease in Ukraine. According to the data available by the morning of Nov. 2, officially 200, 000 people got sick, 60 died. The mortality rate is lower than from regular flu.
Pneumonia is the main reason for death of many people in many countries in all times. It can develop as a complication of many other diseases and traumas. If all of these deaths are reported by the media massively, nothing good will come out of it.
It’s very unlucky that so many factors have come together: crisis, election, autumn and flu. But we have to remember that a viral respiratory infection is one of the most common and light diseases. It requires calm and concrete, elementary actions, that any person can afford.
I understand perfectly well what stress a mother has and what she is capable of when every day she hears about a deadly disease going around, and then she suddenly discovers that her child has a runny nose. The only thing I don’t understand is why they’re doing it to our people."
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