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When Censorship Fails: Two Thirds Of US Adults Think COVID Likely
Started In A Lab

Tomorrow marks the third anniversary of the World Health Organization
declaring Covid-19 a pandemic.

As Statista's Anna Fleck notes, three years on and much has changed,
including opinions on how the virus started, with one origin theory
having taken particular hold in the United States.

According to the latest survey carried out by The Economist and
YouGov, a majority of U.S. adults now think that Covid originated in a
laboratory in China, whether intentionally or as a chance mutation.

Infographic: Two Thirds of U.S. Adults Think Covid Likely Started in a
Lab | Statista

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As Statista's chart shows, 66 percent of U.S. respondents thought this
theory was either probably or definitely true.

Republicans were more likely to take this stance, with 86 percent
agreeing with the statement (54 percent definitely, 32 percent
probably), followed by Independents with 62 percent (26 percent
definitely, 36 percent probably) and lastly Democrats with 54 percent
(16 percent definitely, 38 percent probably).

Despite conflicting theories, and the effort to completely censor any
thought other than the official line, the exact origin story of the
Covid-19 virus actually remains unknown. While the U.S. Department of
Energy has said that Covid could have come from a lab leak in the
Chinese city of Wuhan, the organization has admitted to having “low
confidence” in its findings. The other main theory under discussion is
that the virus could have jumped from animals to humans, for example
in an animal market.

China has responded to the lab leak report by saying that the U.S. is
politicizing the debate.