Claim: Almost 100,000 extra people have died of heart attacks and strokes in England because NHS care standards have collapsed since the pandemic.
Fact-check: Mirror wrong to say NHS standards 'since Covid' behind excess cardiovascular deaths - Full Fact
Verdict: this figure includes deaths that occurred at the height of the pandemic. in total, more than 70,000 people with cardiovascular disease died of covid in the period covered by this research.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Leo Benedictus
Date published: 2023-06-23T00:00:00