There are some simple rules for handling any epidemic (let alone pandemic):
1. Reduce travel
2. Avoid unnecessary contact
3. Take safety precautions when contact is necessary
4. Provide adequate medical supplies and train medical personnel
5. Develop and distribute a vaccine
These are all common sense steps in slowing or even stopping the spread of an infectious disease. However, it would be in an enemy's best interest to disrupt or discredit nearly every one of these necessary and simple rules. This enemy would try to convince people …
1. that the pandemic was not real,
2. that safety precautions were unnecessary or a violation of people's rights or dangerous--or a combination of all three,
3. that people should mix freely with one another,
4. that the vaccine is not safe or is part of some attempt to track or control the population,
5. and that experts in immunology and epidemiology should not be trusted.
Now, we have concrete evidence that Russia has, in fact, been distributing such information into social media outlets. Putin has literally converted entire factories into disinformation distribution centers that target the U.S. However, the blame does not fall on foreign intervention alone; a great deal of the above disinformation is spread by good-ol' American idiocy.
Don't fall for the falsehoods. Use common sense. Don't let Putin win.