Poll shows significant minority of Canadians believe pandemic misinformation The Insights West poll found 37 per cent of Canadians believe COVID-19 was created in a lab and released by mistake, while 31 per cent think it was created as a biological weapon in a lab. Nine per cent reckon there s a chip in the vaccine that will track people, and six per cent say there is a link between COVID-19 and 5G.
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Publishing date: Apr 30, 2021 • April 30, 2021 • 1 minute read • There is no link between 5G and the COVID-19 pandemic. But apparently six per cent of Canadians think there is, according to an Insights West poll that looked at how many Canadians believe different conspiracy theories. Photo by ARNE DEDERT /AFP/Getty Images
Sizable minority of Canadians believe in COVID-19 conspiracies: poll
Last Updated Apr 30, 2021 at 12:44 pm EDT
A man wearing a face mask arrives at a COVID-19 assessment center in Toronto on Dec. 27, 2020. (Photo by Zou Zheng/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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Thirty-seven per cent of Canadians think COVID-19 was manufactured in a lab and mistakenly released
Men more likely than women to believe at least one conspiracy
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – From microchips in COVID-19 vaccines and the virus being created in a lab, to big pharmaceutical companies spreading it, new polling data suggests a sizeable number of Canadians are buying into pandemic conspiracy theories.
by LASIA KRETZEL AND AMANDA WAWRYK
Posted Apr 19, 2021 7:12 am EDT
Last Updated Apr 19, 2021 at 1:38 pm EDT
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Strathcona Paper Centre in Napanee, Ontario, on Monday March 15, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg
Summary
Around 59 per cent of Canadians have received or plan to get their COVID-19 vaccine
About half of respondents say they are worried about the short and long term side effects
Around 15 per cent of Canadians say they won t get the vaccine, likely won t, or are unsure if they will.
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – As more Canadians await their turn to get the COVID-19 vaccine, a new poll finds there are still a lot of misconceptions and concerns.
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The majority of Canadians say they will or are likely to get a COVID-19 vaccine, but a sizeable minority say they don’t intend or aren’t likely to roll up their sleeves, according to a new Insights West survey.
Nearly one in four Canadians expressed some degree of vaccine hesitancy, found the nationwide poll, with concerns ranging from the side effects of the vaccines to a belief vaccines are not effective and COVID-19 isn’t a serious disease.
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