Chinese officials and media have recently been raising questions about the origin of the Wuhan pneumonia (novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19) virus and the vaccine developed in the West, and have even been smearing it with a series of fake news stories, the latest victim being a vaccine developed by Moderna Biotech in collaboration with the National Institutes of health (NIH) in the United States.
The World Health Organization (WHO) officially recommended the Moderna vaccine for provisional use on January 26, and the vaccine was approved for emergency use by the U.S. and Canadian governments last December, and by the European Union and the United Kingdom in January of this year. However, several Chinese media reported the news with the twist that “WHO does not recommend the Modena vaccine”.
Previously, according to a report in the French newspaper, China sent official media to take the lead in deflecting the problem of its own vaccine by falsely claiming that the Wuhan pneumonia vaccine, developed by the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer in cooperation with the German biotech company BioNTech, had killed many people in Germany, which was then denounced by the German media as a deliberate distortion of the facts to create the illusion that Western vaccines do not work.
Liu Xin, the host of China’s Global TV Network, alleged that 10 people died in Germany after receiving the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, but the investigation showed that the deaths were not related to the vaccine.
When reporting the news of “WHO recommends Modena vaccine”, it is surprising that at least three Chinese media, including Global Sources, Observer and Phoenix Technology, headlined “WHO does not recommend Modena vaccine: prevent anaphylaxis in vaccinees “.
Under the same headline, the content is almost identical, saying that the WHO expert group published provisional recommendations for the use of the vaccine on the 26th and will decide at the end of February whether to include the vaccine in the emergency use list, but also said that the vaccine is not recommended for pregnant women.
European media and commentators have pointed out that China’s self-developed vaccine has many problems and is the underdog in the vaccine race, but instead it is spreading false information about the Western-developed vaccine, undermining trust in it and diverting attention from the ineffectiveness of its own vaccine.
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