Claim: More than twice as many people died of Covid-19 in July and August 2022 than in the same months in 2021 and 2020.
Fact-check: Claims exaggerate the number of Covid-19 deaths in 2022 - Full Fact
Verdict: this is misleading, because it uses a measure of covid deaths that includes many people who died for other reasons in 2022. overall, far fewer people have died of covid in 2022 compared with 2021 or 2020.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Leo Benedictus
Date published: 2022-09-23T00:00:00