Society
The WHO records 15,111 measles cases in Kazakhstan for 2023 and 28,147 for 2024 — forty-three thousand people. Beside that stands the official vaccination coverage figure: 99%. The two do not add up. We recounted the whole world and examine how the discrepancy surfaced and what it says about official reporting.
Society
The global pharmaceutical market is $1.5 trillion a year, while chronic disease takes 41 million lives — 74% of all deaths, and the share is rising. The reason is structural: a doctor is judged for following the protocol, not for whether the patient recovered. The opioid epidemic and the Sacklers' $7.4 billion show where that leads.
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Health is often thought of as luck: good genes mean a healthy person. There is some truth in that, but not much. Medicine treats illness, while health is mostly made outside hospitals — by sleep, movement, food, water, air and stress. A doctor matters when something breaks, but the break is laid down years before the visit.
