Health misinformation isn’t new, but it became more widespread during the COVID-19 pandemic.
KFF, formerly the Kaiser Family Foundation, asked two thousand adults about 10 false health claims.was “more people died from COVID-19 vaccines than have died from the COVID-19 virus.”
It shows 47 percent of people labeled this as definitely false, but about 20 percent believed this claim was definitely or probably true. “I think that in the post COVID world, it’s probably one of the most troubling issues we’re going to face in the long term,” said Dr. Daniel Salmon, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Because if people aren’t able or willing to accept the science, when it’s compelling, then what are we based it on?”was “COVID-19 vaccines have caused thousands of sudden deaths in otherwise healthy people.” The survey shows about 31 percent of adults said this was definitely false.
“I think it raises all sorts of issues for vaccine programs for public health more broadly, potentially other government supported programs,” said Dr. Salmon.“Most people are kind of uncertain. They either say, I think that’s probably true, or it’s probably false. But we found that the majority of people were having trouble discerning the truth around some of these claims,” said Liz Hamel, vice president and director of public opinion and survey research at KFF.
The survey also participants abouts false reproductive health claims. It shows about a third of adults believed this false statement that “using birth control like the pill or IUDs makes it harder for most women to get pregnant after they stop using them.”
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