Share of U.S. adults certain of COVID-19 misinformation as of 2023, by education
A survey in 2023 found that the proportion of adults in the United States who believed in COVID-19 misinformation varied by their education levels. Those with a college degree were less likely than those without to believe in false claims about COVID-19.
While a total of one in five adults believed the false claim "More people have died from the COVID-19 vaccines than have died from the COVID-19 virus" was probably or definitely true, less than one in ten believed so among those with a college degree. In comparison, nearly one in three adults who never attended college believed the claim to be true.
This statistic depicts the share of adults who thought select false claims about COVID-19 were definitely or probably true in the United States as of 2023, by education.