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Saturday, August 31, 2024

Growing numbers of Americans are buying into misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, according to a new national survey, with more than one in five believing it's safer to get the virus than to get a shot.

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... Why it matters: Belief in misconceptions is stoking vaccine hesitancy with the nation facing a summer surge of infections, more COVID-related hospitalizations, and updated shots now reaching pharmacy shelves. ...

What they found: 28% of respondents to Annenberg's survey incorrectly believe that COVID-19 vaccines have been responsible for thousands of deaths, up from 22% in June 2021. The percentage who know this is false declined to 55% from 66%.

- - - 22% believe the false idea that it's safer to get a COVID infection than to get the vaccine, up from 10% in April 2021, months after the shots were rolled out.

- - - The percent of those incorrectly believing that the COVID-19 vaccine changes people's DNA nearly doubled to 15% from 8% in April 2021. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-30 02:57 PM | Reply

Thank A Kennedy

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-08-30 03:20 PM | Reply

-The percentage who know this is false declined to 55% from 66%.

So quite a few folks went from not believing such nonsense to believe it?

Where is this coming from? It's not like Trump is running around talking about it.

#3 | Posted by eberly at 2024-08-30 03:30 PM | Reply

What exactly is Trump running around and talking about?

Come on, I'm sure you've got a whole spreadsheet.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-08-30 03:45 PM | Reply

Bacon and wind?

Hannibal Lecter?

How the Couch-Humper and Diaper Boy aren't weird?

Come on, Beverly, elucidate us.

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-08-30 03:47 PM | Reply

a little closer, LYDsockpuppet...a little closer.

You're almost right up to my ----. Don't cheat yourself.....come find out what I had for lunch.

#6 | Posted by eberly at 2024-08-30 03:53 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

The Republican Party has been steadily spreading lies and misinformation for the past 4 years.

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-08-30 03:56 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

That's very ----, Eberly (+)

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#8 | Posted by Corky at 2024-08-30 04:30 PM | Reply

#6

You mad, bro? Election not panning out the way you thought?

Tots and pears, weirdo.

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-08-30 06:45 PM | Reply

Eberly is just being optimistic that the GOP can avoid culpability in promoting Covid denial

#10 | Posted by ChiefTutMoses at 2024-08-31 12:25 AM | Reply

Republicans are benefiting rihjt noe from the imunity built up during worst months of the psndemic and have not on ly not done anything to try to mske us safer from the virus but actually demonized any leaders who have tried to do anything to make us safer from the virus. I have never witnessed a more uncaring group of politicians act so ittesponsibly about anything in my entire life. Their answer to COVID has consistently been "oh well.' Should be a warning to everyone that if another threat to humanity arises don't look to them for leadership. In a world less driven by ideology they would all be getting removed from office ASAP but they can still depend og divicivenessrun on to old prejudices and hatreds. Really without hate where would the GQP be today? It wou;ld be where it belongs rotting like a dead corpse next to the Confederacy.

#11 | Posted by danni at 2024-08-31 09:59 AM | Reply

Republicans are benefiting rihjt noe from the imunity built up during worst months of the psndemic and have not on ly not done anything to try to mske us safer from the virus but actually demonized any leaders who have tried to do anything to make us safer from the virus. I have never witnessed a more uncaring group of politicians act so ittesponsibly about anything in my entire life. Their answer to COVID has consistently been "oh well.' Should be a warning to everyone that if another threat to humanity arises don't look to them for leadership. In a world less driven by ideology they would all be getting removed from office ASAP but they can still depend og divicivenessrun on to old prejudices and hatreds. Really without hate where would the GQP be today? It wou;ld be where it belongs rotting like a dead corpse next to the Confederacy.

#12 | Posted by danni at 2024-08-31 09:59 AM | Reply

Is everyone up to date on their shots. I lost track are we up to 12 now? If you haven't had 12 shots, you're a covid denier.

#13 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-08-31 10:12 AM | Reply

Waiting for the new vaccine to be available here.
Then I'll get it.
Thanks for caring!
This will be my 5th COVID shot. I've had dozens of flu shots. I've had all the recommended vaccinations, plus more for the travel I do.
Why in the world would I not get vaccinated?

You anti-vaxxers are weird.

#14 | Posted by YAV at 2024-08-31 10:40 AM | Reply

#14

I just got over COVID a couple weeks ago it sucked. It was the first time I got it. I took all the vaccines when I was supposed to but it's been a year or two since my last one as my doctors office quit reminding me of them so I kinda forgot. I have my annual physical in December so you can bet I'll be getting this new one then.

Funny no COVID for 4 years then I get lazy about it and boom COVID it's almost like vaccines were keeping me safe.

#15 | Posted by TaoWarrior at 2024-08-31 10:50 AM | Reply

I've had the jabs, all of them (boosters too). Never had Covid, and feel great. I will continue to take them as needed. With that said, I had three business acquaintances pass from Covid early on in the pandemic, those who laughed at masks and mocked people who wore them. Me and my family who have taken the jabs are all doing great. The only people I know that died were those who didn't get the shot. One guy I knew, somewhat of a neighbor, took ivermectin and told me because it was pushed by the big T (Traitor Trump) it had to work. Well, he is no longer with us. I had an older man here, aged 72, who was working on our property. He was mocking masks as well, didn't get the vaccine. He passed just four weeks after he was here, from Covid. So when I see reality and life, it tells me the vaccine is well worth getting.

#16 | Posted by NOTGOINGBACK at 2024-08-31 12:39 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Anti-vaxxers die.

#17 | Posted by Zed at 2024-08-31 12:59 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The vaccine is (obviously) safe.

I just had the latest one last week, my arm is still slightly sore, but no other side effects. I'm hoping it helps me avoid getting sick this fall.

#18 | Posted by DarkVader at 2024-08-31 01:37 PM | Reply

Idiots.

My late sister was one of them. Wouldn't mask, wouldn't vax either. Died in an ICU from COVID long after both were available.

She listened to untruths and now she can't be made undead.

#19 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-08-31 02:04 PM | Reply

Where to find the new COVID vaccine booster shots
www.axios.com

#20 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-31 02:39 PM | Reply

Of course, visitor pops in the spew nonsense.

#21 | Posted by jpw at 2024-08-31 02:43 PM | Reply

"" More Americans Embrace COVID Vax Untruths"

Gee... I wonder why.. Maybe it had to do with all the people who fell in line like sheep to get the shot and then got sick - multiple times.

"You wont contract COVID if you take the vaccine
You won't have to wear a mask if you get the vaccine
You won't have to social distance if you get the vaccine"

~ The Biden Administration

It wasn't until people started questing the efficacy of the shot that they spun 180 degrees and said it was never to keep you from contracting COVID, but it was a vaccine to lessen the severity of the symptoms.

And spare me the bullschitt that me not taking the COVID vaccine will some how make the vaxxed symptoms worse - because we already know it doesn't keep them from contracting it.

#22 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-08-31 03:27 PM | Reply

The 300 lb sack of Putin's DNA snuffed out 1.3 million Americans.

#23 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-08-31 03:31 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

The 300 lb sack of Putin's DNA snuffed out 1.3 million Americans.

#23 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-08-31 03:31 PM | Reply | Flag

Bullschitt... Kamala said it was 220 million.

But anyways, If you believe the news, more died of covid during the Biden Administration than in Trump's. And Biden had a "vaccine"

Puzzling, isn't it?

#24 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-08-31 03:35 PM | Reply

The smelly orange pedo was snuffing out 4000 a day when his Putin-gaped ass was booted from the White House.

#25 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-08-31 03:37 PM | Reply

I have seen evidence the covid vaccine reduces resistance to poison ivy.

#26 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-08-31 03:38 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Why didn't the orange pedo stage a photo op at Herman Cain's grave?

#27 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-08-31 03:41 PM | Reply

I stopped at 10 shots including boosters.

#28 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-08-31 03:41 PM | Reply

How many gallons of horse paste have you ingested?

#29 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-08-31 03:43 PM | Reply

President Trump airlifted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

www.detroitnews.com

This was the peak of dotard's putrid presidency.

#30 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-08-31 03:46 PM | Reply

Not a problem we can go back to having documented proof of when we were last vaccinated.

#31 | Posted by Tor at 2024-08-31 03:46 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"Puzzling, isn't it?"

Not if you understand Math.

An ESPECIALLY if you understand how the vaccine was politicized.

Meanwhile, Republicans lost hundreds of thousands more voters than Democrats. Puzzling?

#32 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-08-31 03:55 PM | Reply | Funny: 2 | Newsworthy 1

Meanwhile, Republicans lost hundreds of thousands more voters than Democrats
That's a feature, not a problem.

#33 | Posted by mattm at 2024-08-31 05:27 PM | Reply

In Wisconsin every covid death becomes a Democrat vote in perpetuity.

#34 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-08-31 07:58 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

How many gallons of horse paste have you ingested?

#29 | POSTED BY REINHEITSGEBOT AT 2024-08-31 03:43 PM |

Not as any gallons of horse ----- as you and Walz ingested.

#35 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-08-31 09:28 PM | Reply

Meanwhile, Republicans lost hundreds of thousands more voters than Democrats
That's a feature, not a problem.

#33 | POSTED BY MATTM AT 2024-08-31 05:27 PM | REPLY

Then you should feel confident about this presidential race.

#36 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-08-31 09:31 PM | Reply

In Wisconsin every covid death becomes a Democrat vote in perpetuity.

#34 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

Because even the dead know better than to vote republican?

#37 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-08-31 11:00 PM | Reply

"In Wisconsin every covid death becomes a Democrat vote in perpetuity."

What a fetid observation.

Wisconsin is famous for looking at the gerrymandering in North Carolina and saying ...

... Pffft. Pikers.

In NC, Democrats get the majority of the statewide Congressional votes, but with gerrymandering, Republicans have a veto-proof majority.

The Sconnies, not to be outdone, have rigged the system so SEVENTY FIVE PERCENT of voters could vote for the Dems, and the Republicans could still retain control of the state legislature.

For an historical perspective, neither of the two biggest landslides in Presidential history (Harding and FDR) broke 61%.

#38 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-09-01 01:59 AM | Reply

Are COVID vaccines still a thing? I still get a flu vaccine, but haven't been offered or even seen a COVID vaccine since 2022 at the latest.

#39 | Posted by madbomber at 2024-09-01 02:03 AM | Reply

@#39 ... Are COVID vaccines still a thing? ...

Yes.

They updated vaccines have been mentioned a lot in local media.

This may be helpful...

Where to find the new COVID vaccine booster shots
www.axios.com

#40 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-01 02:08 AM | Reply

#40

I live in Germany. My doctor typically recommends getting a flu vax during the fall, but the last time I was given a COVID vax was in 2021.

Maybe they just do it different over here. I don't even see advertisements at my pharmacy.

#41 | Posted by madbomber at 2024-09-01 02:17 AM | Reply

I'd get one if it was available. I've never had issues with vaccines. You can't really spend 24 years on active duty if you do.

#42 | Posted by madbomber at 2024-09-01 02:19 AM | Reply

Pharmacy over here tells me when I pick up a prescription if I'm due a booster or when flu shots are coming in. My nurse practitioner - this is southern FL - has pushed for getting the new Covid hit as soon around 9/1 as I can, wait a few days, get the flu shot. I'm an old bastard and that certainly plays a role in this. Having weathered the last go-around, I'm keen on paying attention. I "do my own research," but they do it better. Mucho mas mejor.

#43 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-09-01 07:08 AM | Reply

I stopped after 2. I now have high blood pressure and coronary artery disease. Thanks Covid Vaccine. I told you all i have had nothing but bad reactions to vaccines my entire life. Force me to take 2 of these and now I'm really screwed. Thanks awful people

#44 | Posted by gypsydiane8177 at 2024-09-01 07:33 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Forced? Did someone hold you down and inject you against your stated wishes? Or did you have a critical health care job and were mandated to get vaxed in order to keep your job.

#45 | Posted by mattm at 2024-09-01 10:37 AM | Reply

"I stopped after 2. I now have high blood pressure and coronary artery disease. Thanks Covid Vaccine. "

"correlation does not imply causation"

For example:

If you get a sunburn every time you eat ice cream on a hot sunny beach it does not mean the ice cream caused it.

"Or did you have a critical health care job"

This person is obviously too stupid to have ever worked in a critical health care job.

#46 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-09-01 11:55 AM | Reply

#45

That wasn't as much a thing as it may have appeared to be. I have an associate who was a senior executive with a pharm company. The company demanded that everyone get a COVID vaccine. three of the four VPs in her division refused. She kept her job.

#47 | Posted by madbomber at 2024-09-01 03:00 PM | Reply

#46

There is absolutely a correlation between COVID vaccines and hypertension. Feel free to Google it.

#48 | Posted by madbomber at 2024-09-01 03:01 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

There's also correlation between hypertension and age.

And diet.

And lifestyle.

And genetics.

And career/life choices.

Go out and avoid all those things, and then let's check your blood pressure.

#49 | Posted by horstngraben at 2024-09-01 03:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

There is absolutely a correlation between COVID vaccines and hypertension.

Any correlation was "transient and rare". Meaning it probably had nothing to do with the vaccine.

Feel free to google it.

#50 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-09-01 03:21 PM | Reply

There is absolutely a correlation between COVID vaccines and hypertension.

Good I've dealt with hypotension for pretty much my entire life. In fact one of my MS drugs has a side effect of raising blood pressure, since starting it I've had low-normal blood pressure, instead of low, for the first time in my life. Maybe the covid vaccines can raise it to normal, I mean they haven't yet but maybe the next one.

#51 | Posted by TaoWarrior at 2024-09-01 03:33 PM | Reply

When enough people get vaccinated it creates "herd immunity" which id what Republicans are depending on to prevent themselves from being blamed for a repeat Pandemic and the associated death toll just like the previou round

"What they found: 28% of respondents to Annenberg's survey incorrectly believe that COVID-19 vaccines have been responsible for thousands of deaths, up from 22% in June 2021. The percentage who know this is false declined to 55% from 66%."

Misinformation is the intentional spreading of false information snd it wotks because we have so many stupid people in this country. COVID reduces the number of them but many survive despite their stupidity, and that;a good. I really don't want them to die just because they are stupid. I guess, it's not their fault thst they are stupid and I don't enjoy watching them get sick and die.
i didn'y lsugh when Herman Cain got sick and died and he was one of those denying that vaccines are importantm thought masks were stupid, eyc. Turned out he was wrong but I was not happyhe goy sick. I kind of liked him.

#52 | Posted by danni at 2024-09-02 12:16 PM | Reply

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