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‘Died Suddenly’? More Than 1-in-4 Think Someone They Know Died From COVID-19 Vaccines - Demographics

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National Survey of 1,000 American Adults
Conducted December 28-30, 2022 by Rasmussen Reports
Total Gender Age <40> Race Party Married Children at Home Income Employment Investor Have you received a COVID-19 vaccination? 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, that there are legitimate reasons to be concerned about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, or that people who worry about vaccine safety are spreading conspiracy theories?
Adults Men Women 18-39 40-64 65+ < Men Men 40+ < Wom Wom 40+ White Black Other Democrat Republican Other Married Not married Yes No Under $30,000 $30,000 - $50,000 $50,000 - $100,000 $100,000 - $200,000 More than $200,000 Gov't Entrepreneur Prvt. Co. Retired Other Yes No Yes No Not sure Very likely Somewhat likely Not very likely Not at all likely Not sure Yes No Not sure Legitimate reasons to be concerned People are spreading conspiracy theories Not sure
Have you received a COVID-19 vaccination? Yes 71% 71% 71% 65% 71% 82% 60% 73% 67% 72% 73% 71% 65% 85% 63% 64% 76% 64% 72% 70% 61% 65% 73% 88% 80% 82% 62% 73% 78% 60% 81% 62% 100% 0% 0% 48% 66% 91% 93% 70% 54% 81% 57% 59% 88% 67%
No 26% 25% 27% 31% 26% 17% 39% 23% 29% 26% 24% 29% 30% 14% 35% 30% 21% 32% 27% 26% 36% 32% 25% 11% 18% 18% 37% 25% 19% 31% 17% 34% 0% 100% 0% 46% 33% 9% 7% 23% 42% 18% 32% 37% 11% 27%
Not sure 3% 4% 2% 4% 3% 1% 2% 4% 4% 2% 3% 1% 4% 1% 3% 5% 2% 4% 2% 4% 2% 3% 2% 1% 2% 0% 1% 2% 3% 9% 2% 4% 0% 0% 100% 6% 2% 0% 0% 7% 4% 1% 11% 4% 1% 6%
Total Gender Age <40> Race Party Married Children at Home Income Employment Investor Have you received a COVID-19 vaccination? 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, that there are legitimate reasons to be concerned about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, or that people who worry about vaccine safety are spreading conspiracy theories?
Adults Men Women 18-39 40-64 65+ < Men Men 40+ < Wom Wom 40+ White Black Other Democrat Republican Other Married Not married Yes No Under $30,000 $30,000 - $50,000 $50,000 - $100,000 $100,000 - $200,000 More than $200,000 Gov't Entrepreneur Prvt. Co. Retired Other Yes No Yes No Not sure Very likely Somewhat likely Not very likely Not at all likely Not sure Yes No Not sure Legitimate reasons to be concerned People 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 28% 33% 24% 30% 29% 24% 24% 35% 18% 26% 30% 18% 29% 31% 32% 23% 32% 24% 34% 25% 29% 35% 29% 23% 22% 43% 36% 28% 24% 19% 30% 26% 19% 51% 54% 100% 0% 0% 0% 0% 65% 12% 25% 49% 10% 8%
Somewhat likely 21% 19% 23% 28% 17% 14% 29% 17% 34% 19% 16% 30% 28% 20% 24% 19% 21% 21% 24% 19% 19% 25% 23% 22% 14% 11% 28% 24% 16% 21% 22% 20% 19% 26% 12% 0% 100% 0% 0% 0% 23% 20% 20% 26% 14% 19%
Not very likely 20% 19% 20% 18% 19% 25% 12% 20% 23% 20% 21% 17% 17% 17% 20% 21% 19% 20% 15% 22% 24% 18% 20% 19% 16% 25% 11% 17% 25% 22% 18% 21% 25% 6% 1% 0% 0% 100% 0% 0% 5% 28% 9% 8% 32% 26%
Not at all likely 17% 18% 17% 10% 21% 24% 20% 17% 11% 19% 19% 17% 15% 23% 12% 17% 17% 18% 15% 19% 13% 11% 17% 23% 37% 8% 16% 18% 21% 17% 20% 14% 23% 5% 0% 0% 0% 0% 100% 0% 2% 26% 11% 5% 37% 8%
Not sure 14% 12% 16% 14% 13% 13% 15% 11% 14% 16% 14% 18% 12% 9% 12% 19% 11% 17% 12% 15% 15% 11% 10% 12% 11% 14% 8% 12% 14% 21% 9% 18% 14% 12% 33% 0% 0% 0% 0% 100% 5% 14% 35% 11% 7% 38%
Total Gender Age <40> Race Party Married Children at Home Income Employment Investor Have you received a COVID-19 vaccination? 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, that there are legitimate reasons to be concerned about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, or that people who worry about vaccine safety are spreading conspiracy theories?
Adults Men Women 18-39 40-64 65+ < Men Men 40+ < Wom Wom 40+ White Black Other Democrat Republican Other Married Not married Yes No Under $30,000 $30,000 - $50,000 $50,000 - $100,000 $100,000 - $200,000 More than $200,000 Gov't Entrepreneur Prvt. Co. Retired Other Yes No Yes No Not sure Very likely Somewhat likely Not very likely Not at all likely Not sure Yes No Not sure Legitimate reasons to be concerned People 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 28% 29% 28% 35% 28% 14% 31% 29% 33% 26% 26% 25% 35% 33% 26% 26% 33% 23% 40% 22% 28% 33% 30% 26% 28% 37% 41% 32% 16% 23% 31% 25% 22% 45% 38% 65% 32% 8% 3% 10% 100% 0% 0% 45% 15% 9%
No 61% 61% 62% 54% 63% 75% 59% 61% 55% 65% 64% 65% 54% 62% 63% 60% 58% 66% 53% 66% 62% 57% 61% 65% 69% 56% 53% 57% 71% 66% 59% 63% 70% 42% 24% 26% 58% 88% 91% 64% 0% 100% 0% 45% 80% 67%
Not sure 10% 10% 10% 11% 9% 11% 9% 10% 12% 9% 10% 10% 11% 5% 11% 14% 9% 11% 7% 12% 10% 10% 9% 9% 3% 8% 6% 11% 12% 11% 9% 11% 8% 12% 38% 9% 10% 5% 6% 26% 0% 0% 100% 10% 5% 24%
Total Gender Age <40> Race Party Married Children at Home Income Employment Investor Have you received a COVID-19 vaccination? 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, that there are legitimate reasons to be concerned about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, or that people who worry about vaccine safety are spreading conspiracy theories?
Adults Men Women 18-39 40-64 65+ < Men Men 40+ < Wom Wom 40+ White Black Other Democrat Republican Other Married Not married Yes No Under $30,000 $30,000 - $50,000 $50,000 - $100,000 $100,000 - $200,000 More than $200,000 Gov't Entrepreneur Prvt. Co. Retired Other Yes No Yes No Not sure Very likely Somewhat likely Not very likely Not at all likely Not sure Yes No Not sure Legitimate reasons to be concerned People are spreading conspiracy theories Not sure
Which is closer to your belief, that there are legitimate reasons to be concerned about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, or that people who worry about vaccine safety are spreading conspiracy theories? Legitimate reasons to be concerned 48% 50% 46% 46% 52% 43% 45% 51% 41% 49% 51% 36% 48% 44% 60% 43% 50% 46% 51% 46% 55% 48% 49% 48% 41% 62% 53% 47% 43% 44% 51% 45% 40% 69% 56% 83% 61% 20% 14% 40% 76% 35% 47% 100% 0% 0%
People are spreading conspiracy theories 37% 38% 36% 34% 38% 43% 41% 37% 37% 36% 36% 40% 38% 46% 28% 35% 39% 34% 35% 38% 30% 34% 39% 46% 44% 27% 41% 41% 39% 30% 40% 34% 46% 15% 13% 13% 25% 60% 79% 19% 19% 48% 18% 0% 100% 0%
Not sure 15% 12% 18% 20% 11% 14% 14% 12% 23% 16% 14% 23% 14% 10% 12% 22% 11% 20% 14% 16% 15% 18% 13% 7% 15% 11% 6% 13% 18% 25% 9% 21% 14% 16% 30% 4% 14% 20% 7% 42% 5% 16% 36% 0% 0% 100%
Survey Demographics
  Total
Adults
Gender Men 49%
Women 51%
  Total
Adults
Age 18-39 41%
40-64 41%
65+ 18%
  Total
Adults
Race White 63%
Black 13%
Other 24%
  Total
Adults
Party Republican 29%
Democrat 34%
Other 37%
  Total
Adults
Have you received a COVID-19 vaccination? Yes 71%
No 26%
Not sure 3%