Claim: Locking down in the early stages of the virus is linked to a reduced excess death toll.
Fact-check: The limits of what we can say about early lockdowns - Full Fact
Verdict: this may be true, but showing a correlation between the number of excess deaths and the time of lockdown is not enough evidence to argue this point, as the ft did.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2020-06-05T00:00:00