One-Third of U.S. Believes Coronavirus Was Sent by God

As people reckon with the global upheaval that the coronavirus pandemic has caused, the vast majority of the United States believes that there is a lesson to be learned from everything the virus has wrought this year.

A survey from the Pew Research Center found that a resounding 86% of respondents “believe there is a lesson or set of lessons for humankind to learn from the coronavirus outbreak.”

Slightly more than one-third, 35%, of all respondents took that statement a step further and said that the coronavirus was a lesson sent by God. Only 13% of respondents said that there was no lesson to be learned from the coronavirus.

The survey was conducted with participants from Pew’s American Trends Panel, a sample of randomly selected adults in the U.S. that currently comprises 15,372 active respondents. That sample is weighted for such population benchmarks as gender, age, and education. More than 10,000 adults were polled for this survey, which was run from July 13-19, and 3,700 respondents were then asked to provide qualitative responses. (Read more from “One-Third of U.S. Believes Coronavirus Was Sent by God” HERE)

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