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A new poll conducted by The Trafalgar Group, in partnership with a poll by the Convention of States Action, shows that half of Americans no longer agree with previous theories of how COVID-19 was created.
According to the poll, most Americans now believe that COVID-19 was created in a lab and may have developed into a pandemic from an intentional or accidental "lab-leak." This is now referred to as the "lab-leak theory."
The Trafalgar Group, one of America’s most accurate pollsters in 2016, 2018 and 2020, has released the results of a poll conducted between June 3 and June 7 of more than 1,000 people likely to vote in the 2022 election.
While results show that 29.3% are unsure of the origins of the outbreak, 29.1% believe the COVID-19 virus was human-engineered and "intentionally released" from the Wuhan Lab in China. A little more than 24% believe the virus was human-engineered, but "accidentally escaped" from the Wuhan Lab by or through unknown circumstances. Of those polled, 17.2.% believe the COVID-19 virus was a naturally occurring disease transmitted to humans at a Wuhan wet market, as initial reports stated.
A large separation upon party line variations shows in the poll of those who answered.
For Democrats, 28.3% believe the virus occurred naturally and was transmitted through a Wuhan wet market, while only 5.5% of Republicans believe that origin theory. The poll found that 46.6% of Republicans believe the virus was human-engineered and intentionally released from the lab, while only 16.2% of Democrats polled this as their belief.
Similarly, both parties are statistically close in that 21% of Democrats believe COVID-19 was human-made and accidentally escaped from the lab, while 27.5% of Republicans agree with that theory. A total of 34.5% of Democrats and 20.5% of Republicans remain unsure.
Of the participants of the poll, 71.2% were white, 12.3% black, 11.5% Hispanic, 3.9% Asian and 1.1% other. The most likely participants of the poll were between 45-64 in age at 36.5%, followed by 26.6% 65 and older, 14.9% between 35-44, 14.2% between the ages 25-34 and 7.7% between the ages of 18 and 24.
According to a press release from the Convention of States Action (COSA), a full 54% of all Americans believe the virus was created by China. Overall, 37% of Democrats, 55% of Independents and 74% of Republicans say COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan lab, regardless of how it was transmitted to humans.
Now that the "lab-leak theory" is receiving more attention, some claim it is becoming harder to trust the federal government, especially as Dr. Anthony Fauci's emails have become public record, COSA reported in another article.
Former Director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention Robert Redfield, a virologist, explained in a Fox News report that he also believes COVID-19 came from a lab leak.
According to Redfield, other deadly viruses, such COVID-19, contradict in how they spread from human to human. Redfield said that other viruses, like that of SARS and MERS, did spread from animals to humans, but at a much slower rate.
Redfield said he is disappointed at the "lack of openness" in the scientific community about the virus' origins and the pursuit of "both hypotheses." He also said he does not trust the World Health Organization as he believes it is "too compromised" by Beijing for a transparent investigation.