state don't you think that russian doctors have a reason to feel it's not superior adenike least considine the data and isn't that actually good from a scientific point of view that they're coming to the global community of scientists with the day that establishing was was the main cause of the disease and what was the air pump and accompanying cost there is no a priori reason. to think that russia is going to be any different from most of the other countries in in the region. he in that new more developed world in having the same in the end attributable fraction of deaths once you adjust for differences in population age distribution and population density. well that's that's an interesting point i want to talk about that a little bit later but before we go into that you highlighted one specific similarity in the russian and the american response to that pandemic and this is a delegation of decision making today to trace states in the american context and the regions of russia and i heard some people call that an abdication of responsibility on the part of the federal authorities but user