According to a report, China fears for the safety of Pfizer’s COVID-19 shot to disappear from damning studies.
State media have increased coverage of unfounded security fears and accused the Western media of ignoring the deaths of 23 recently elderly elderly people in Norway, even after officials ruled the vaccine did not play a contributing role, the Associated Press said.
The focus on Pfizer’s vaccine came when a study in Brazil showed that China’s vaccine, Sinovac, was only 50 percent effective, despite claims that it was almost 80 percent effective.
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a government-sponsored think tank, reported that an increase in Chinese media’s disinformation about vaccines was seen immediately after the study was announced.
The director of the Chinese Centers for Disease Control, Gao Fu, helped dispel fears and insisted that there were safety issues with mRNA vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna.
Yuan Zeng, an expert on Chinese media at the University of Leeds in Britain, said the government’s stories were so widespread that even well-educated Chinese friends asked her if they were true.
The conspiracy theories could probably only contribute to vaccine discomfort, making the disinformation ‘super, super dangerous,’ Yuan said.
Chinese officials also sparked a wild, unfounded conspiracy that the pandemic originated in a military laboratory in Fort Detrick, Maryland, and deviated from the fact that World Health Organization scientists are currently in the initial epicenter, Wuhan to investigate its true origin.
The social media hashtag “American’s Ft. Detrick, ‘started 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 for wrongdoing by (the) Chinese government in the early days of the pandemic to conspiracy by the United States,” said Fang Shimin, an American author known for his false degrees exposed other fraud in Chinese science. wire service.
“The tactic is quite successful because of the widespread anti-American sentiment in China.”
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