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Russia-Ukraine Flash Report 30 JAN 2023 11:00 PST - But is it True?

Added 2023-01-30 19:03:39 +0000 UTC

No.

That is not what the World Health Organization wrote, and the release had nothing to do with the new threat of "we will nuke you" from the Kremlin, which the Kremlin has been spouting since February 2022.

We did the work for you.

WHO updates critical medicines list for radiological and nuclear emergencies

The last time these guidelines were updated was in 2007, before the Fukushima meltdown in Japan. Since 2011, new therapies and procedures have been developed to prevent excessive radiological exposure and, more importantly, how to treat radiation poisoning, particularly Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS).

The foundational science of how much radiation exposure will kill you is unchanged. What has improved is our ability to treat people with a survivable exposure level. The new guidelines provide information on the type of drugs that should be added to stockpiles and new information on effective therapies.

That's it.

This update has been a work in progress for two years.

If the author of this completely irresponsible Fortune story had bothered to download and read the publicly available guidelines, they would have learned that the working group included scientists and doctors from the Russian Federation, the work on the document started in 2021, and the final review started in May 2022. Work continued with the guideline creators, including those from Russia, even after the widescale invasion started.

The timeline is in the document.

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