The Democracy Fund + UCLA Nationscape Project found some misinformation about the coronavirus is more widespread that you might think.
Nearly one-third of Americans believe a vaccine already exists to prevent coronavirus infection but is being withheld from the public, while nearly half believe the COVID-19 virus was created in a lab.
"To see about a third of people give that some level of, 'Yeah, that might be true,' that was pretty shocking to me," said Robert Griffin, research director for the Democracy Fund Voter Study Group."That's a pretty dark type of thought to be floating around the public. There's an undercurrent of a lack of trust in society, a lack of trust in elites."
Story continues"There's a variety of battlegrounds in a public health crisis like this," Griffin said, pointing to on-the-ground logistics and unexpected problems that arise."But another one is just how to convince people of the truth about a variety of things."No vaccines or treatments are approved for COVID-19.
The survey found 44% of Americans believe the coronavirus was probably created in a a lab, while 56% said this is likely or definitely untrue. Fifty percent of Republicans surveyed said they believe coronavirus was created in a lab, compared with 37% of Democrats who said they believed that. Forty-eight percent of Americans said the U.S. is"concealing" the number of coronavirus deaths – a sentiment that's more prevalent among Democrats. More than half of Democrats, 55%, said it's probably or definitely true that the number of deaths is being concealed, while 38% of Republicans said it is likely so.
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