COVID-19 conspiracies are turbocharged through conservative media
, “I’m dead right on this. The coronavirus is the common cold, folks.” The Harvard study shed light on how widespread this idea has become, as 38% of respondents believe that both COVID-19 and the flu are “as likely as the other to result in death.
Once highly influential conservative hosts have peddled misinformation out to millions, the wide use of social media during the pandemic makes it nearly impossible to slow its spread.
Meanwhile, Democrats who participated in the Harvard study were more likely than their Republican counterparts “to know that the coronavirus is more lethal than the flu” and to eschew theories claiming the “Chinese government created the virus as a bioweapon.” Alternatively, poll respondents who looked to mainstream outlets like theand NBC News expressed “accurate information about the disease’s lethality and…beliefs about protection from infection.
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