As well as our usual political fact checking, we’ve also been looking into claims made online and in the media. We’re still seeing Covid misinformation spreading. Like this false claim that more are dying from the virus this year than in 2020 or 2021.
This article will only consider the English data, which gives a misleading view of the progress of the pandemic for two reasons.relatively few deaths in 2020 and 2021.
A bigger issue with this measure is that it exaggerates the number of deaths that Covid is currently causing because it counts all deaths within 60 days of a positive test—whether or not the death was actuallyIn the past, the 60-day measure was a reasonably accurate proxy for the number of people dying of Covid. But following the vaccination programme and the arrival of the
1,075 people in England died of Covid in July and August 2020, and 46,177 in the first eight months of that year
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