Poll shows huge number of Americans ignorant about COVID death rates
Poll shows huge number of Americans ignorant about COVID death rates – LifeSite
‘Americans still misperceive the risks of death from COVID-19 for different age cohorts – to a shocking extent.’ SamaraHeisz5 / Shutterstock.com August 20, 2020 ( American Thinker) – Franklin Templeton, an investment company, commissioned a Gallup research study to learn about Americans’ perceptions about the Wuhan virus, with an eye to better understanding the recovery.
They Blinded Us from Science | Franklin Templeton
The first round of our Franklin Templeton-Gallup Economics of Recovery Study has already yielded three powerful and surprising insights: Americans still misperceive the risks of death from COVID-19 for different age cohorts-to a shocking extent; The misperception is greater for those who identify as Democrats, and for those who rely more on social media for information; partisanship and misinformation, to misquote Thomas Dolby, are blinding us from science; and We find a sizable “safety premium” that could become a significant driver of inflation as the recovery gets underway.
