Nearly one-third of Americans believe a coronavirus vaccine exists and is being withheld

[Celerity]

https://news.yahoo.com/nearly-one-third-americans-believe-090024774.html

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.

As the coronavirus pandemic approached 50,000 deaths in the U.S. – around half didn't believe that figure either – new data suggested many Americans held misinformation about the virus. The death total has now surpassed 80,000 more than two weeks after the results of the survey were published. It signals their mistrust in institutions as citizens are being asked to rely on government, health and other leaders amid the outbreak.

Twenty-nine percent said it's either probably or definitely true that a vaccine that prevents coronavirus infection exists and is being withheld, according to the Democracy Fund + UCLA Nationscape Project. An even greater percentage, 32%, said they believe treatment that cures coronavirus infection exists but is being withheld. Around 7 out of 10 Americans said those statements are untrue.

"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."

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[mwooldri]

1. What level of dumbfuckery has America sank to? We're fucked. NT

[dhill926]

2. I've always been amazed at how easily some folks...

fall for propoganda. I'm sure there are many studies....is it because it panders to their prejudices? At any rate, a bunch of weak minded dumbfucks...

[Blecht]

3. I wonder what George Carlin would say today

[raging moderate]

5. It is equally strange who they think the "elite" are.

They don't think the Trump family or the Kushner family or the Koch family or the Mercer family are among the "elite." They don't think Putin or McConnell are among the "elite." Oh, no! It's just those pesky book-reading and science-experiment people who are the "elite" (no matter how humble their actual circumstances may be). They believe that those are the people who control the world's resources and money and governments!

[mike_c]

4. plus Congress stole from Social Security...

...vaccines are poison, the Earth is flat, and the moon landings were faked. Ignorance is a virtue in the U.S.

[lame54]

6. Which 3rd?...

Trumpers or not

[Alacritous Crier]

7. Gotta be.

[Quixote1818]

8. That same 1/3rd will say covid is not dangerous, Bill Gates is doing population control

5G is really killing everyone and dinosaurs lived with Jesus. Even though several of them contradict one another, they don't see an issue.