At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US military launched a secret campaign to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation and to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines, according to a new Reuters investigation.
According to the Reuters investigation, the clandestine operation affected the Philippines which had been hit particularly hard by the virus. I should know. I was in Metro Manila at the time.
In 2020, I released two reports on the pandemic and its international human and economic costs (here, here). The situation was particularly dire in the Philippines. I took the Sinovac shot twice…