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More Than Half Suspect COVID-19 Vaccines Have Caused Deaths - Demographics

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National Survey of 1,133 American Adults
Conducted January 7-9, 2024 by Rasmussen Reports
  Total Gender Age <40> Race Party Married Children at Home Education Income Employment Investor How likely is it that side effects of COVID-19 vaccines have caused a significant number of unexplained deaths? Do you personally know anyone whose death you think may have been caused by side effects of COVID-19 vaccines? Which is closer to your belief?
Adults Men Women 18-39 40-64 65+ < Men Men 40+ < Wom Wom 40+ White Black Other Democrat Republican Other Married Non Married Yes No Attended high school, but did not graduate High school graduate Attended college, but did not complete College graduate Graduate school Not sure Under $30K $30K-$50K $50K-$100K $100K-$200K $200K+ Not sure Gov't Entrepreneur Prvt. Co. Retired Other Yes No Very likely Somewhat likely Not very likely Not at all likely Not sure Yes No Not sure There are legitimate reasons to be concerned about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines People who worry about vaccine safety are spreading conspiracy theories Not sure
How likely is it that side effects of COVID-19 vaccines have caused a significant number of unexplained deaths? Very likely 30% 30% 30% 25% 37% 23% 31% 30% 17% 34% 29% 34% 31% 22% 44% 25% 36% 23% 37% 26% 36% 44% 22% 31% 22% 8% 41% 27% 32% 22% 23% 23% 37% 30% 29% 30% 26% 31% 29% 100% 0% 0% 0% 0% 60% 18% 32% 48% 8% 12%
Somewhat likely 23% 24% 23% 26% 20% 23% 17% 25% 32% 20% 21% 22% 28% 24% 25% 22% 25% 21% 26% 21% 6% 18% 20% 28% 28% 0% 18% 28% 23% 25% 26% 15% 19% 30% 25% 18% 23% 23% 23% 0% 100% 0% 0% 0% 25% 22% 24% 33% 9% 17%
Not very likely 20% 22% 19% 20% 19% 23% 26% 21% 22% 18% 21% 20% 20% 27% 16% 19% 17% 24% 16% 23% 7% 19% 26% 20% 20% 0% 18% 23% 21% 24% 15% 11% 33% 16% 22% 20% 13% 21% 20% 0% 0% 100% 0% 0% 9% 27% 12% 10% 38% 20%
Not at all likely 16% 15% 17% 13% 17% 17% 13% 15% 10% 19% 18% 11% 13% 22% 7% 18% 13% 18% 15% 16% 24% 7% 18% 14% 22% 0% 11% 15% 17% 18% 24% 15% 10% 16% 15% 20% 15% 16% 15% 0% 0% 0% 100% 0% 3% 23% 6% 2% 38% 14%
Not sure 11% 10% 12% 15% 7% 13% 14% 9% 18% 10% 11% 13% 9% 6% 8% 17% 8% 14% 7% 13% 28% 11% 13% 7% 7% 92% 12% 6% 7% 12% 11% 36% 1% 7% 9% 11% 23% 9% 13% 0% 0% 0% 0% 100% 4% 10% 26% 7% 7% 38%
  Total Gender Age <40> Race Party Married Children at Home Education Income Employment Investor How likely is it that side effects of COVID-19 vaccines have caused a significant number of unexplained deaths? Do you personally know anyone whose death you think may have been caused by side effects of COVID-19 vaccines? Which is closer to your belief?
Adults Men Women 18-39 40-64 65+ < Men Men 40+ < Wom Wom 40+ White Black Other Democrat Republican Other Married Non Married Yes No Attended high school, but did not graduate High school graduate Attended college, but did not complete College graduate Graduate school Not sure Under $30K $30K-$50K $50K-$100K $100K-$200K $200K+ Not sure Gov't Entrepreneur Prvt. Co. Retired Other Yes No Very likely Somewhat likely Not very likely Not at all likely Not sure Yes No Not sure There are legitimate reasons to be concerned about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines People who worry about vaccine safety are spreading conspiracy theories Not sure
Do you personally know anyone whose death you think may have been caused by side effects of COVID-19 vaccines? Yes 24% 24% 23% 22% 26% 18% 10% 26% 20% 24% 20% 29% 29% 19% 30% 22% 28% 20% 24% 23% 30% 27% 25% 21% 20% 25% 29% 23% 23% 20% 25% 21% 33% 25% 27% 16% 21% 24% 23% 47% 25% 10% 4% 9% 100% 0% 0% 37% 7% 12%
No 62% 63% 62% 65% 59% 66% 77% 60% 66% 61% 66% 54% 56% 69% 57% 62% 57% 68% 62% 63% 37% 58% 59% 67% 71% 5% 58% 63% 62% 72% 68% 44% 55% 69% 56% 71% 60% 65% 60% 38% 60% 82% 90% 58% 0% 100% 0% 48% 86% 61%
Not sure 14% 13% 15% 13% 14% 16% 13% 13% 14% 15% 13% 17% 15% 12% 13% 16% 16% 12% 14% 14% 32% 15% 16% 11% 9% 70% 13% 14% 15% 8% 7% 34% 12% 6% 17% 13% 19% 11% 17% 15% 15% 8% 6% 33% 0% 0% 100% 15% 7% 27%
  Total Gender Age <40> Race Party Married Children at Home Education Income Employment Investor How likely is it that side effects of COVID-19 vaccines have caused a significant number of unexplained deaths? Do you personally know anyone whose death you think may have been caused by side effects of COVID-19 vaccines? Which is closer to your belief?
Adults Men Women 18-39 40-64 65+ < Men Men 40+ < Wom Wom 40+ White Black Other Democrat Republican Other Married Non Married Yes No Attended high school, but did not graduate High school graduate Attended college, but did not complete College graduate Graduate school Not sure Under $30K $30K-$50K $50K-$100K $100K-$200K $200K+ Not sure Gov't Entrepreneur Prvt. Co. Retired Other Yes No Very likely Somewhat likely Not very likely Not at all likely Not sure Yes No Not sure There are legitimate reasons to be concerned about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines People who worry about vaccine safety are spreading conspiracy theories Not sure
Which is closer to your belief? There are legitimate reasons to be concerned about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines 54% 56% 52% 51% 59% 46% 55% 56% 47% 53% 51% 50% 61% 37% 69% 54% 60% 47% 57% 51% 53% 60% 50% 55% 50% 50% 57% 55% 55% 51% 49% 45% 54% 57% 60% 46% 50% 53% 54% 86% 77% 25% 8% 33% 84% 41% 58% 100% 0% 0%
People who worry about vaccine safety are spreading conspiracy theories 33% 33% 33% 33% 32% 37% 33% 33% 32% 34% 35% 36% 27% 55% 21% 27% 29% 38% 30% 35% 14% 27% 38% 33% 41% 5% 27% 33% 34% 36% 44% 34% 37% 34% 31% 36% 30% 38% 29% 9% 13% 62% 81% 22% 9% 46% 17% 0% 100% 0%
Not sure 13% 11% 15% 15% 10% 17% 12% 11% 22% 13% 14% 14% 12% 8% 10% 19% 11% 15% 13% 13% 33% 13% 13% 13% 9% 45% 16% 12% 11% 13% 7% 22% 9% 9% 9% 18% 20% 9% 17% 5% 10% 13% 12% 46% 7% 13% 25% 0% 0% 100%
Survey Demographics
  Total
Adults
Gender Men 47%
Women 53%
  Total
Adults
Age 18-39 38%
40-64 43%
65+ 19%
  Total
Adults
Race White 62%
Black 13%
Other 25%
  Total
Adults
Party Democrat 34%
Republican 29%
Other 37%