Nearly a portion of Americans’ COVID-19 vaccines may be the cause of many unexplained deaths, and more than a quarter say someone they know may be among the victims.
The most recent national telephone and online survey from Rasmussen Reports shows that (49%) of U. S. adults are very likely that side effects from COVID-19 vaccines have caused a significant number of unexplained deaths, and 28% believe it is very likely. Thirty-seven percent (37%) don’t say a significant number of deaths were caused by vaccine side effects, adding 17 percent who think it’s not entirely likely. 14% are not sure. (To view the wording of the survey questions, click here. )
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Twenty-eight percent (28%) of adults say they personally know whose death they believe may have been caused by side effects from COVID-19 vaccines, while 61% don’t know and 10% aren’t sure.
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Forty-eight percent (48%) of Americans have valid reasons to worry about vaccine protection against COVID-19, while 37% of others involved in vaccine protection spread conspiracy theories. 15% are not sure.
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The survey of 1,000 U. S. adults conducted Dec. 28-30, 2022, via Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is /- 3 percentage issues with a 95% confidence level. Field paintings for all Rasmussen Reports surveys are conducted through Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
Seventy-one percent (71%) report being vaccinated against COVID-19, while 26% have not. Concerns about vaccine protection are much higher among unvaccinated people.
Seventy-seven percent (77%) of adults who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 are at least slightly more likely than adverse events from COVID-19 vaccines to have caused a significant number of unexplained deaths. Of those who won the vaccine, only 38% consider unexplained deaths from the vaccine to be at least slightly more likely.
Similarly, while 45% of those who have not been vaccinated oppose COVID-19 that someone they know personally may have died from vaccine side effects, only 22% of vaccinated adults feel the same.
Forty-six percent (46%) of adults who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 object to other people involved in vaccine protection spreading conspiracy theories, but only 15% of other unvaccinated people have this belief. Sixty-nine percent (69%) of those who have not obtained the COVID-19 vaccine there are valid reasons to get involved in protecting COVID-19 vaccines, as are 40% of those who have been vaccinated against the virus.
More Democrats (85%) than Republicans (63%) or others not affiliated with either major party (64%) have been vaccinated against COVID-19. More Republicans (60%) than Democrats (44%) or other unaffiliated individuals (43%) there are valid reasons to get involved in protecting COVID-19 vaccines. However, there is less political difference in the number of others who suspect someone they know might have died from vaccine side effects: 33% of Democrats and 26% of Republicans and unaffiliated.
For forty-six percent (46%) of whites, 48% of blacks, and 57% of other minorities, it is at least slightly more likely that the side effects of COVID-19 vaccines have caused a significant number of unexplained deaths.
Young Americans are less likely to get vaccinated against COVID-19, and 35% of adults younger than 40 who know personally may have died from vaccine side effects, compared with 28% of people ages 40 to 64 and only 14% of Americans 65 and older.
With slightly more men (52%) than women (47%), it is at least slightly more likely that a significant number of unexplained deaths were caused by side effects from COVID-19 vaccines.
Married adults are more likely to get vaccinated against COVID-19 than their single peers, but more married Americans (33%) than single Americans (23%) someone they know personally could have died from the side effects of the vaccine.
Voters with annual incomes of less than $30,000 probably think there are valid reasons to worry about COVID-19 vaccine protection, while those earning more than $200,000 are likely for others involved in vaccine protection. They are spreading conspiracy theories.
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The survey of 1,000 American adults conducted December 28-30, 2022 via Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is /- 3 percentage issues with a 95% confidence level. Fieldwork for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is done through Pulse Opinion Research.
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