STIGMATIZING vaccines can lead to extremely serious consequences like causing mistrust between science and public health, among others, China's leading vaccine supplier Sinovac told the Global Times in an exclusive response over the weekend after Reuters revealed that the Pentagon had conducted a secret anti-vaccine campaign to undermine China during the coronavirus pandemic.

On Friday, Reuters released an investigative report stating that at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the US military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China's growing influence in the Philippines, a country hit especially hard by the deadly virus.