With unvaccinated refugees from Ukraine pouring into other countries, health officials hope to avert outbreaks of COVID-19 and other diseases.
, 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.
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, The flight of refugees through history has incited warnings that they carried disease and pestilence — charges sparked more often by xenophobic hysteria than fact. Across Europe, however, hostility toward Ukrainian refugees has been virtually absent, and public health experts have aired their concerns carefully to avoid compounding refugees’ trauma.Some 3.2 million Ukrainians have fled the war, and they keep on leaving. Most men stay behind, leading to crushing separations.
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