Claim: Covid-19 and influenza statistics are being combined to make the numbers look worse.
Fact-check: Flu and Covid-19 statistics are not being added together - Full Fact
Verdict: this is not true. statistics about the two diseases are being published separately in the same document. this has no effect on the numbers.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Leo Benedictus
Date published: 2020-10-12T00:00:00