Table 4.

Correlations between trust in separate misinformation items and precautionary health behavior.

	5G causes COVID-19	COVID-19 is used to persuade people to take a vaccine	Vaccine will be ready by summer	Refugees are responsible for the pandemic	Garlic is a remedy against COVID-19	Mosquitoes spread COVID-19	Corona beer causes COVID-19	COVID-19 was first outside China	Precautionary behavior
5G causes COVID-19	-	0.412**	0.176**	0.208**	0.159**	0.153**	0.207**	0.094	−0.052
COVID-19 is used to persuade people to take a vaccine		-	0.168**	0.240**	0.221**	0.150**	0.096	0.105*	−0.133**
Vaccine will be ready by summer			-	0.179**	0.127*	0.096	0.116*	0.155**	−0.116*
Refugees are responsible for the pandemic				-	−0.005	0.161**	0.026	0.100	0.042
Garlic is a remedy against COVID-19					-	0.112*	0.169**	0.093	−0.064
Mosquitoes spread COVID-19						-	0.063	0.096	0.076
Corona beer causes COVID-19							-	0.060	−0.029
COVID-19 was first outside China								-	−0.027

^*p ≤ 0.05;

^**p ≤ 0.001.