Claim: Weekly death figures in late 2020 are barely higher than the maximum in the previous five years, once you adjust for population growth.
Fact-check: The Daily Mail's chart of Covid-19 death figures doesn't use the real numbers - Full Fact
Verdict: this is false. the figures used assume a level of population growth between 2019 and 2020 that is not credible.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Tom Phillips
Date published: 2020-11-23T00:00:00