Thread by @AlanRMacLeod

Most people don't read past the headline to know that it was 618 workers out of 677,348 who received the vaccine. Or 0.09%.

The only conclusion is @Reuters is deliberately publishing anti-vax propaganda against the Chinese vaccine.

Unreal levels of irresponsibility.

Reuters has been cynically pumping out anti (Chinese) vax stuff for months.

Read the headline. Think what it implies. Then read the passage below it from half way through the article.

The @nytimes is also in on the action.

If you read the article, you'll know the Brazilian guy in question committed suicide.

So in what world is this in any way newsworthy?

Only if it can be used to pump up fears against China and its vaccine.

The US Dept of Health and Human Services' latest report says that one of its key achievements of 2020 was persuading Brazil not to buy the Russian vaccine.

Brazil has lost more than 500k people to COVID and has barely vaccinated anyone as a result.

mintpressnews.com/media-campaign…

As this Guardian article implies, Western nations would rather millions more in the Global South died than China or Russia save their lives.

Thus, I actually don't think the anti-vax stuff is simply irresponsible journalism; I think it is something much darker.

Considering what we've seen already, these headlines are pretty sus as well.

If you're unaware, leaked gov documents show that Reuters was covertly working with the UK government to "weaken Russia." So a similar deal against China is not implausible.

Reporting here done by @MaxBlumenthal.

thegrayzone.com/2021/02/20/reu…