Claim: While the media talks a lot of the 150,000 deaths, perhaps they should have been talking about the number of people who died 'of Covid' not 'with Covid'. That was just 17,371 up to the end of quarter three 2021
Fact-check: Dan Wootton and David Davis make incorrect claims about Covid-19 deaths - Full Fact
Verdict: false. this is the number of people who died of covid and had no pre-existing conditions in england and wales.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2022-01-26T00:00:00