A shocking number of Americans believe in lies about COVID-19 and the coronavirus vaccine, a Kaiser Family Foundation survey found.

Almost eight in 10, or 78%, of those polled said they believed or weren’t sure of at least one false statement about COVID-19. The false claims included things like “COVID-19 vaccines have been shown to cause infertility” and “COVID-19 vaccines contain a microchip.”

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the poll found a major partisan split in the results. “Almost half (46%) of Republicans versus just 14% of Democrats believe or aren’t sure about four or more false statements about COVID-19,” Kaiser writes. And 84% of Republicans believe or don’t know if the government is exaggerating the number of deaths from COVID-19.

Only one in five adults surveyed did not believe any of the eight lies, while nearly half believed or weren’t sure about one to three. Partisan differences aside, the other largest gaps were between vaccinated and unvaccinated Americans – “Unvaccinated adults are at least 20 percentage points more likely than vaccinated adults to lack knowledge about every piece of misinformation. tested, ”says Kaiser.

The Kaiser Family Foundation interviewed 1,519 American adults by telephone between October 14 and October 24. The margin of error was 3 percentage points. See more survey results here.