The poll also found Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say the virus came from a Chinese laboratory.
to say the virus came from a Wuhan lab, according to the poll. Seventy-seven percent of respondents who identified as Republicans agreed with the statement that a laboratory in China was the origin of the virus responsible for COVID-19. That number is little changed since 2020, when 72 percent of Republicans said the same in a similar poll.
Respondents who had more education tended to side with the origin story posited by the science community. Twenty-one percent of college graduates said they believe the virus naturally mutated in the wild, compared to 26 percent without a college degree who said COVID-19 originated in a laboratory. Newsweek, in partnership with NewsGuard, is dedicated to providing accurate and verifiable vaccine and health information. With NewsGuard's HealthGuard browser extension, users can verify if a website is a trustworthy source of health information. Visit the
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