Russia’s invasion of Ukraine brings a host of serious threats to public health beyond the military violence itself, experts warn.
A medical specialist treats a patient who has Covid-19 at the intensive care unit of the City Clinical Hospital Number 3 in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Oct. 26, 2021.
As of 2020, about 87 percent of the population had received the first dose of the polio vaccine, Jašarević said. Ukraine began a vaccination campaign on Feb. 1 targeting children younger than 6 who hadn’t gotten their polio shots. In the more immediate term, however, global health experts worry about coming disruptions of care for people in Ukraine who have noncommunicable diseases.
It will, however, probably be difficult to assess a Covid increase in real time, according to Sonny Patel, a public health practitioner and visiting scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.