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Washington Post: As pandemic pounds Ukraine, desperate officials try to scare people into getting the jab

By Washington Post.

Published Nov. 6, 2021 at 1:59 am

A medical worker walks through the hall with the bodies of patients who died of COVID-19 at the Kyiv City Clinical Hospital No. 12 on Nov. 3, 2021.

Photo by Kostyantyn Chernichkin

Ukraine’s pandemic figures are scary: skyrocketing infections, record deaths and among the lowest vaccination rates in Europe. So officials decided to become scary themselves with an advertising campaign aimed at young people: If you’re unvaccinated, you may die.