Public accounts on WeChat, the most popular Chinese-language messenger app and third most popular messaging app globally, are sharing a letter from Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche to the WHO, in which he calls for halting mass vaccination. Dr. Vanden Bossche’s letter claims that vaccines will cause more deadly variants to arise, which is a common argument made by vaccine opponents. Dr. Vanden Bosshe’s credentials as a virologist and vaccine expert who has previously worked for GAVI and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation may make his claims seem more credible. The letter has been translated into multiple languages and has been read and shared widely.
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