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Line 422: {{main\|COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and hesitancy}} {{see also\|Misinformation related to vaccination\|label1=General misinformation related to vaccination and immunisation\|Vaccine hesitancy}} {{Excerpt\|COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and hesitancy\|hat=no}} {{Excerpt\|COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and hesitancy\|hat=no}}According to a report by ''[[Reuters]]'', the United States ran a [[Propaganda in the United States\|propaganda]] campaign to spread misinformation about the [[Sinovac Biotech\|Sinovac]] Chinese [[COVID-19]] vaccine, including using fake social media accounts to spread the misinformation that the Sinovac vaccine contained pork-derived ingredients and was therefore ''[[haram]]'' under [[Sharia\|Islamic law]].<ref name=":6">{{Cite news \|last=Bing \|first=Chris \|last2=Schechtman \|first2=Joel \|date=June 14, 2024 \|title=Pentagon Ran Secret Anti-Vax Campaign to Undermine China during Pandemic \|url=https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/ \|work=[[Reuters]]}}</ref> The campaign primarily targeted people in the [[Philippines]] and used a social media [[hashtag]] for "China is the virus" in [[Tagalog language\|Tagalog]].<ref name=":6" /> The campaign ran from 2020 to 2021.<ref name=":6" /> The primary contractor for the U.S. military on the project was [[General Dynamics\|General Dynamics IT]], which received $493 million for its role.<ref name=":6" /> ==Hospital conditions== Some conservative figures in the United States, such as [[Richard Epstein]],<ref>{{cite magazine \|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/epstein-trump-coronavirus-crackpot/ \|title=All the President's Crackpots \|vauthors=Heer J \|date=30 March 2020 \|magazine=The Nation}}</ref> downplayed the scale of the pandemic, saying it has been exaggerated as part of an effort to hurt President Trump. Some people pointed to empty hospital parking lots as evidence that the virus has been exaggerated. Despite the empty parking lots, many hospitals in New York City and other places experienced thousands of COVID-19-related hospitalizations.<ref name=20200401nationalobserver>{{cite web \|url=https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/04/01/analysis/right-wing-conspiracy-theories-go-mainstream-amid-mounting-covid-19-death-toll \|title=Right-wing conspiracy theories go mainstream amid mounting COVID-19 death toll \|vauthors=Orr C \|date=1 April 2020 \|website=National Observer \|access-date=2 April 2020}}</ref>

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