China raises concerns about the safety of Pfizer’s COVID-19 fire to deviate from cursing studies questioning the effectiveness of its vaccine, according to a report.
State media have stepped up coverage of unfounded safety concerns, accusing Western media of ignoring the deaths of 23 seniors recently inoculated in Norway, even after officials decided the vaccine did not play a “contributing role.” Press.
The focus on the Pfizer vaccine came as a study in Brazil showed that China’s Sinovac vaccine was only 50% effective, despite claims to be almost 80% effective.
The Australian Institute for Strategic Policy, a government-backed think tank, reported seeing an increase in Chinese media misinformation about vaccines immediately after the study was launched.
The director of the Chinese Centers for Disease Control, Gao Fu, helped spread the fears, insisting “there are safety issues” with mRNA vaccines developed by both Pfizer and Moderna.
Yuan Zeng, an expert in Chinese media at the University of Leeds in the UK, said the government’s stories had spread so widely that even well-educated Chinese friends asked her if they could be true.
Conspiracy theories only stir up vaccines – making misinformation “super, super dangerous,” Yuan said.
Chinese officials have also pushed a baseless, wild conspiracy that originated in a military laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland, to deviate from the fact that scientists at the World Health Organization Health is currently in its original epicenter, Wuhan, to investigate its true origins.
The social media hashtag “American’s Ft. Detrick, initiated by the Communist Youth League, was viewed at least 1.4 billion times last week, the AP said.
“Its purpose is to shift the blame from the mishandling of the (Chinese) government in the early days of the pandemic to the US conspiracy,” said Fang Shimin, a U.S. writer known for exposing falsified grades and other fraud in Chinese science. wire service.
“The tactic is quite successful because of the anti-American sentiment spread in China.”
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