Font Size A recent survey conducted by the leftist Public Religion Research Institute associated the COVID-19 laboratory leak hypothesis with QAnon conspiracy theories. The leftist Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), a nonprofit research organization, conducted a survey asking participants their opinions on religion, COVID-19 and vaccinations. Nearly 40 percent of Americans who participated in the survey, conducted in March 2021, responded that COVID-19 was “developed intentionally by scientists in a lab.” PRRI polled 5,149 adults and asked whether “The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 was developed intentionally in a lab.” Fifteen percent responded that they “[c]ompletely agree” and another 24 percent said they “[m]ostly agree.” While “[t]his question wasn’t the focus of the survey[,] … it was one of a number of questions intended to gauge respondents’ support of QAnon,” reported NiemanLab. The laboratory theory question appeared “alongside questions that asked people whether they believed the election was stolen from Donald Trump and whether they agreed with the statement that ‘because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.’”