Chinese expert Tao Lina clarified that Chinese inactivated vaccines are safe and said VOA has twisted his words to mean the opposite in their news article. However, the VOA on its Chinese language website used Tao’s words in its report published on Thursday, writing that the Sinopharm vaccine was found to produce 73 side effects, making it the most unsafe vaccine in the world. The attempts to discredit the image of Chinese vaccines’ safety really makes me annoyed,” Tao noted. “I did not say in the post that the Chinese vaccine was unsafe, because I know most of those 73 adverse reactions written on the Sinopharm vaccine user guide are non-existent. This ironic way of pointing out the safety and efficacy of the Chinese vaccine was distorted by foreign media,” Tao told the Global Times.

Source: Manila Times January 08, 2021 04:52 UTC