A resolution has been filed in the Senate urging the Committee on Foreign Relations to investigate in aid of legislation the alleged secret campaign launched by the US military to discredit China's Sinovac vaccine.Senator Imee Marcos, the committee's chairperson, filed the measure to verify if there was indeed an anti-vaccination and misinformation campaign orchestrated by the US military at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It identified at least 300 accounts, almost all of which were created in the summer of 2020 and centered on the slogan #Chinaangvirus."These numerous social media posts sowed mistrust against the Sinovac vaccine and other COVID-19 vaccines.